[TenTec] HIGH PERFORMANCE SUB-RECEIVER FOR TEN-TEC ORION TRANSCEIVERS

[John Occhipinti]

Just before leaving for the Dayton Hamvention, I received my June copy of 
QST magazine. On page 62 under NEW PRODUCTS, the TEN-TEC RX366 was 
advertised. As a new owner of the Orion II, I was very interested in getting 
one and I wanted to inform the many Orion owners who do not receive QST.

Soon after I posted this, I received many emails, some friendly and others 
not so friendly informing me that the RX366 is not a new product and several 
of these people told me that they already had the RX366 installed in their 
Orion.

When I saw Jim Wharton NO4A, Vice President TEN-TEC, Inc. at the Dayton 
Hamvention I asked him about this and he said that QST probably needed to 
fill up space.

When I was assisting at the TEN-TEC Booth, I asked John Henry, TEN-TEC 
Engineering about the RX366 and he said that he had already saw many of the 
postings pro and con and told me that he needed to personally respond to 
clear the air.

After 14 months as Net Control for the TEN-TEC SSB 40 meter and 20 meter 
nets, I had just found out about the RX366 on May 15th. after reading the 
NEW PRODUCTS article in QST. So on one hand I want to apologize for posting 
the QST article and on the other hand, this opened up a plethora of postings 
and information about the RX366 that was not being talked about on the 
various TEN-TEC Yahoo Groups.

Thank you for taking the time to hear my side of the story.

John, K3UR

http://www.qrz.com/db/k3ur
John D. Occhipinti, K3UR
Net Control, TEN-TEC SSB Nets
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/ten_tec_radio_net/
The Voice of Atlanta

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "John Occhipinti" <k3ur at att.net>
To: <Ten-Tec-Omni-VII at yahoogroups.com>; <TenTec_Eagle at yahoogroups.com>; 
<TenTec_539 at yahoogroups.com>; <TenTec at yahoogroups.com>; 
<tentec at mailman.qth.net>; <tentec at contesting.com>; 
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Sent: Wednesday, May 15, 2013 4:27 PM
Subject: [TenTec] HIGH PERFORMANCE SUB-RECEIVER FOR TEN-TEC 
ORIONTRANSCEIVERS


> For those TEN-TEC Orion owners who do not receive the QST magazine, I am 
> forwarding this announcement that is in the new June issue of QST on page 
> 62, which reads:
>
> "HIGH PERFORMANCE SUB-RECEIVER FOR TEN-TEC ORION TRANSCEIVERS"
>
> Model RX366 is a high performance sub-receiver for the Orion Model 565 and 
> Orion II Model 566. This is a new contest grade second receiver for the 
> Orion series of transceivers. The new second receiver module uses ASR 
> (Advanced Signal Reception) technology that is already used in the TEN-TEC 
> Eagle transceiver. The RX366 requires V3 Orion 565 and Orion II 566 
> firmware. With V3 and the RX366 installed, the Orion sub- receiver 
> performance is said to be greatly improved over the original sub-receiver 
> in terms of immunity to interference from adjacent strong signals and 
> immunity to overload from very strong signals present on the band. Price: 
> $639 (one 2.4 kHz filter included). For more information, or to order, 
> visit www.tentec.com.
>
> I will see many of you at the Dayton Hamvention, as I will be working at 
> the TEN-TEC Booth with the other TEN-TEC Ambassadors and TEN-TEC Staff. 
> Thank you.
>
> John, K3UR
>
> http://www.qrz.com/db/k3ur
> John D. Occhipinti, K3UR
> Net Control, TEN-TEC SSB Nets
> http://groups.yahoo.com/group/ten_tec_radio_net/
> The Voice of Atlanta
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