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I agree with Cecil on this. Also, it involved many 3rd party folks to put the package together, hardware and software etc. No direct support.
Andy, W3LI

> From: chacuff at cableone.net
> Date: Tue, 6 May 2014 20:23:45 -0500
> To: n4py3 at earthlink.net; tentec at contesting.com
> Subject: Re: [TenTec] (no subject)
> 
> That's true if one has the space to dedicate another PC and monitor and mouse and whatever else is needed.  Certainly that would be a bit easier to see but I would never run it on the same PC I'm using for logging, rig control, digital decode, cluster etc...that already is busy and using two monitors and plenty of horsepower.
> 
> That's where the attraction of a capable built in with external monitor capability or a P3 implementation comes from.....
> 
> Not sure why that's hard to understand....
> 
> Cecil
> K5DL
> 
> Sent from my iPad
> 
> > On May 6, 2014, at 7:32 PM, Carl Moreschi <n4py3 at earthlink.net> wrote:
> > 
> > I couldn't agree more.
> > 
> > Carl Moreschi N4PY
> > 58 Hogwood Rd
> > Louisburg, NC 27549
> > www.n4py.com
> > 
> >> On 5/6/2014 10:46 AM, Rsoifer--- via TenTec wrote:
> >> Guys
> >> 
> >> I don't understand why the issue of a panadaptor display keeps coming  up.
> >> The Elecraft panadaptor is a pretty box, but the function is much  better
> >> performed through a PC interface than a display on the radio.
> >> 
> >> 73 Ray W2RS
> >> 
> >> 
> >> In a message dated 4/8/2014 7:30:11 P.M. GMT Standard Time,
> >> jhenry at tentec.com writes:
> >> 
> >> Hi  Steve,
> >> 
> >> That is one item I will not talk about until the day we either  ship it or
> >> can it.
> >> Given this items track record.
> >> All I can  officially say is.... We have not dropped it from development
> >> yet.
> >> But, for  clarification, the design is for the 588 internally, to add a
> >> continuous  sweep that it currently does not provide. It would be in place
> >> of the slow  "snap shot" sweep that kills the receiver during that time. At
> >> time of  first production, it followed the Jupiter sweep, which was greatly
> >> liked by  most hams, but, technology changes, competitors add features, so,
> >> they now  expect the 588 to have it. Since it is still in production (and
> >> yes, plan  to for many years, best laid plans though)
> >> 
> >> It isn't dead  yet.
> >> Personally, I don't think it will be killed, because we do realize it  is an
> >> integral part of future rigs, regardless of the fact that it will  just be a
> >> sweep (maybe also with waterfall, that part isn't ironed out in  the 588
> >> firmware yet) and not a fully featured sweep that is provided on a  PC
> >> today. It is still useful. Especially for single receiver type rigs  like
> >> the OMNI-VII.
> >> 
> >> And to answer Rick DJ0IP on "modular/optional",  yes, as with TEN-TEC rigs
> >> of the past, we follow that into future rigs that  will have a LOT of
> >> options, so that someone can start with a single  transceiver x, then add a
> >> tuner, or a second receiver, external fan,  optional filters, bluetooth,
> >> high speed sweeps, spigots for I&Q,  transverter outputs, etc., etc.  all
> >> optional and hopefully customer  upgrade-able.
> >> 
> >> Thanks, and 73,
> >> John Henry, KI4JPL
> >> TEN-TEC  Engineering
> >> 
> >> ==============================================
> >> 
> >> John  Henry,
> >> 
> >> All the discussion on these great features and more this past  week,
> >> resurected one particular feature that I’ve lost touch with from  Ten
> >> Tec - the external high definition pan adapter video display that as  I
> >> understood was being developed and protos built at one time, not  all
> >> that long ago.  I realize the same came be accomplished with  several
> >> adjunct boxes today, but was wondering if this piece of  optional
> >> equipment is gone forever from Ten Tec?
> >> 
> >> Thanks,
> >> Steve -  W5JK
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