[TenTec] OT: Chinese Amplifiers

[Rick - DJ0IP / NJ0IP]

I have heard that too, but don't know that to be the case.
That would explain its filthy transmitter!

It is quite possible that the Chinese radios my buddy got ahold of actually
came from the same assembly line as the originals.
Only problem is, all the menus are in Chinese, making the $96 radios pretty
useless.

73 - Rick, DJ0IP
(Nr. Frankfurt am Main)


-----Original Message-----
From: TenTec [mailto:tentec-bounces at contesting.com] On Behalf Of Bob McGraw
- K4TAX
Sent: Thursday, May 29, 2014 1:54 PM
To: Discussion of Ten-Tec Equipment
Subject: Re: [TenTec] OT: Chinese Amplifiers

Isn't the FT-450D made in China under the Yaesu label?   I seem to 
understand that to be the case.

73
Bob, K4TAX


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Rick - DJ0IP / NJ0IP" <Rick at DJ0IP.de>
To: "'Discussion of Ten-Tec Equipment'" <tentec at contesting.com>
Sent: Wednesday, May 28, 2014 2:54 PM
Subject: Re: [TenTec] OT: Chinese Amplifiers


> Bob, that's "your" concern (mine too), but it doesn't seem to concern the
> people who continue to buy FT-450D's.
> And of course many other dirty rigs.
> Those guys won't hesitate to buy one of these.
>
> 73 - Rick, DJ0IP
> (Nr. Frankfurt am Main)
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: TenTec [mailto:tentec-bounces at contesting.com] On Behalf Of Robert
> Sent: Wednesday, May 28, 2014 9:06 PM
> To: Discussion of Ten-Tec Equipment
> Subject: Re: [TenTec] OT: Chinese Amplifiers
>
> My concern is the spectral purity. I know it may say it meets "bla bla" 
> but
> from my experience that is just text printed on a label.  Yes the label is
> required for the item to be sold in the US but does it really meet the
> requirements?  Two current and popular transceivers I've recently repaired

> &
> tested do not meet spectral purity.   Yet both have labels indicating they
> do conform.
>
> Buy the crap radios & amps but don't complain about crap performance. 
> After
> all one gets what they paid.......not much.
>
> 73
> Bob K4TAX.
>
>
> Sent from my iPhone
>
>> On May 28, 2014, at 12:34 PM, "Rick - DJ0IP / NJ0IP" <Rick at DJ0IP.de>
> wrote:
>>
>> Along with the transceiver clones, there are amplifier clones.
>> A clone of the OM-Power amplifiers has been selling down under for
>> about a year.
>>
>> Apparently they have opted to test the Australian market first.
>> Closer to home?
>> They entered the market for about $2500 but are now selling for close
>> to $2K.
>>
>> Array Solutions sells OM-Power amplifiers in the states.
>> See:  http://www.arraysolutions.com/Products/OM_Power/OM_Power.htm
>>
>> And here's a link to the Chinese amplifiers:
>> http://www.amp.co.nf/
>>
>> TWO QUESTIONS for you guys:
>>
>> 1).  Would you rather pay $7K for an original OM-Power, made in the
>> Slovak Republic or $2K for what looks to be the same amplifier, but made
> in China?
>>
>> 2).  Regardless of how you answered #1, what do you think most people
>> will do?
>>
>> OK, so some of you answered "neither" and will stick with "made in
> America".
>> How much longer?
>>
>> IMO the cheap clones will cause the good OEMs to switch their business
>> to something else, or simply close their doors.
>> Not today and not tomorrow but within 5 years!
>>
>> 73
>> Rick, DJ0IP
>>
>>
>>
>>
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