[TenTec] Alpha Amplifiers and TEN-TEC Merge

[Jack Emerson]

My experience was similar.
About 3 years' ago, I had to replace the top yagi on my tower. I decided to 
go with the HY-GAIN LongJohn 15m yagi. Since I already had 2 of the older 
HY-GAINS on the tower, it made a natural fit.
BIG MISTAKE. 28 days after getting a new LongJohn yagi and putting it on top 
of the tower, we had a minor wind storm here, about 50 mph winds. THE 
ELEMENTS STARTED BREAKING OFF!!
Before the winter was over, I had nothing but a boom with 5 sheared off 
elements left. My 15 m top yagi looked like an extra long 2m yagi.
When the first element broke off, I measured it against an extra yagi that 
was stored in my barn and discovered that the end tip elements were thinner 
than the elements that had been produced when the company was HY-GAIN.
The end result was over a thousand extra dollars spent, because MFJ had 
thinned the inner tubing of my element tips.

And to this day, the older, original HY-GAIN yagis are still intact, having 
just survived yet another winter here on the crest of the blue ridge in 
southwestern Virginia.

To summarize, HY-GAIN is not the same company since being purchased by MFJ, 
and I have the sheared off element tips to prove it.

73 de Jack W4TJE



-----Original Message----- 
From: Dave Edwards
Sent: Monday, May 12, 2014 10:31 PM
To: Discussion of Ten-Tec Equipment
Subject: Re: [TenTec] Alpha Amplifiers and TEN-TEC Merge

Hy Gain???  Big change!!
I read the reviews of the TH3Mk4 on eham, but dismissed them. I thought
"It's still HyGain!"
I planned to replace my old TH3.
The first one was a mess....elements would not even fit together
properly. I could have machined it, and made it work..but not for that
kind of money....got it replaced, and that one had traps that shook like
a rattle. Who knows what was shaking around inside there. Kind of like
an MFJ tuner....loose junk inside!!
Anyway. I returned the second one, and spent a few weekends refurbishing
my old, original TH3....which is up there now. Don't know what I'll
replace it with if I have to...hoping I can just keep resurrecting it!!
...Dave
On 5/12/14, 8:18 PM, Cecil wrote:
> I haven't noticed any significant change in the HyGain product since being 
> acquired by Mississippi based MFJ... I'm a Mississippian and am proud to 
> have them manufactured in our state.  Several of our club members use them 
> and they have been no problem....pretty much the same for the antenna 
> rotors....still a decent product at its price point.
>
> Cecil
> K5DL
>
> Sent from my iPad
>
>> On May 12, 2014, at 1:12 PM, Dave Edwards <kd2e at comcast.net> wrote:
>>
>> Bill....Yes, it depends on whose viewpoint.
>> The product with HyGain stamped on it remains doors open, but
>> as a potential source for a new antenna for me...they are 
>> out-of-business...doors closed. (sadly).
>> ...Dave
>>> On 5/12/14, 12:38 PM, Bill NY9H wrote:
>>> for Jim ...  you are DEAD ON ....
>>>
>>> for Dave  on "closing the doors .."..
>>> I know this means keeping the doors open.
>>>
>>> bill  ny9h
>>>
>>> At 12:16 PM 5/12/2014, you wrote:
>>>> It sounds to me as if the recent retirement of the founding, and 
>>>> presumably
>>>> only, shareholders is behind this.  They needed a way to liquidate 
>>>> their
>>>> investment and provide for management going forward, a very common 
>>>> problem
>>>> of closely held businesses.  I'd guess this is the "exit strategy" for 
>>>> the
>>>> TenTec owners.
>>>>
>>>> 73 de W6OGC  Jim Allen
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> On Mon, May 12, 2014 at 11:12 AM, Ron Notarius W3WN 
>>>> <wn3vaw at verizon.net>wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> It only means that the new, merged firm will be known under the RF
>>>>> Concepts name.
>>>>>
>>>>> The company.  Not necessarily the product line(s).
>>>>>
>>>>> You might see, for example, something like "Ten-Tec, A Division of RF
>>>>> Concepts".  But I just can't see the merged firm throwing away the
>>>>> reputation and corporate Good Will that comes with the Ten-Tec brand 
>>>>> name.
>>>>>
>>>>> 73
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> On 05/12/14, K3GHH wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>> The merger of these brands under the RF Concepts banner makes perfect
>>>>>> sense,"
>>>>>> added Seedman,
>>>>> "Under the RF Concepts banner"? Does that mean the TenTec brand is
>>>>> disappearing? (Can we anticipate an "RF Concepts Orion 3"?
>>>>>
>>>>> --John K3GHH
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