[TenTec] repairs

[Rick - DJ0IP / NJ0IP]

Paul,

If you are correct and unless I'm missing something pretty spectacular here,
at that price it will be born dead.
What features could it possibly have to make it worth close to $2K?

I've already pointed out one (which is speculation, I know) but if true, it
will mean sub-par performance, unless they do follow it up with DSP filters.

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


-----Original Message-----
From: TenTec [mailto:tentec-bounces at contesting.com] On Behalf Of Paul Gentry
Sent: Tuesday, October 28, 2014 1:49 PM
To: Discussion of Ten-Tec Equipment
Subject: Re: [TenTec] repairs

What you stated is possibly one reason why it's not in production yet.
This was a new product showcased at Dayton last year (2013) and was supposed
to be out by August 2013!  Here we are roughly at November 2014.

Of course I could sight other products including RF Concepts tuner, and Ten
Tec's Patriot.  Manufacturing issues including sourcing parts, etc.
sometimes leads to the products never coming into production.  As you stated
though, price is the leading factor to buyers and usually trumps everything
else.  Why buy the Palstar when you can buy an Eagle that arguably has more
features, is in production, has the bugs worked out, and is cheaper?  The
TR30a definitely won't come in at under 1K as you wished.
The QRPer blog listed a range of $1500-2000.

Paul K4BWG
On Tue, Oct 28, 2014 at 8:19 AM, Dave Edwards <kd2e at comcast.net> wrote:

> I kind of like what I see in that Palstar.
> It now all depends on the price. It simply has to come in 
> significantly less then other beginner rigs.
>
> ....Dave
>
>
> On 10/28/14, 2:37 AM, Ken Brown wrote:
>
>> I don't suppose there is a big enough market to support Ten-Tec or 
>> anyone
>>
>>> else coming out with this kind of basic rig (other than in QRP
versions).
>>>>
>>>>  It looks like Palstar may gamble that there is:
>>> http://www.palstar.com/en/tr30a/
>>>
>>>
>>>  It is an interesting rig, but I don't see it as being easy to 
>>> service
>> or easy to keep a stock of essential replacement parts for.
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