[TenTec] "The End of Ten-Tec" (Yeah, Right)

[James Duffer]

Is SGC is around.  I have a SGC-2000 which operated on ham, marine and other frequencies also have their tuner.
Jim (wd4air)

> From: k4zm at comcast.net
> To: tentec at contesting.com
> Date: Fri, 17 Dec 2010 16:17:29 -0600
> Subject: Re: [TenTec] "The End of Ten-Tec" (Yeah, Right)
> 
> I doubt that Ten-Tec is about to close the doors.  It is a fact that the 
> amateur market is only a small percentage of the company's business. Their 
> biggest volume is the manufacture of tools & dies and metal boxes for 
> electronic OEM manufactures.  The amateur business was a labor of love for 
> Al Cohn and Jack Birtchfield.  When Al sold Electro-Voice and bought Ten-Tec 
> a tool and die manufacture they decided to build a ham transceiver. Al has 
> since become a silent key and I am sure Jack is ready for retirement or 
> already has retired.  Both were great gentlemen to do business with and to 
> talk to on the air.
> 
> However, I am old enough to remember when National Radio, Hallicrafters, 
> Drake, Regency, Multi-Elmac, Gonset, Central Electronics, Swan Electronics, 
> Atlas Radio, Harvey Wells, Morrow Radio,  Clegg Laboratories,  Webster 
> Bandspanner,  Walter Ashe,  Technical Material Corp.,  Barker and 
> Williamson,  Peterson Radio,  James Millen,  Hammurland, EF Johnson, 
> Heathkit, World Radio Labs, Knight, Lafayette, Eico, Ameco, Hornet Antennas, 
> RME Receivers, Master Mobile Antennas, Collins, and several other American 
> ham radio manufactures were major players in the manufacture and sales of 
> ham radio gear.  Now we are down to two, Ten-Tec and MFJ.  Some of the 
> exodus was caused but the failure of engineering departments to keep up with 
> single sideband  technology but a great deal of them fell from the Asian 
> manufacture competetion.
> 
> 73
> 
> Jim Yoiunce K4ZM 
> 
> 
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