[TenTec] Let us have HOPE and SUPPORT

[John King via TenTec]

Kim, where do you get such inside info?? Is someone confiding with you against Ten Tec's policy or are you just. clairvoyant and all seeing or knowing??? I am really impressed.!! 73, John, K5PGW 


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On Tue, 1/27/15, Kimberly Elmore <cw_de_n5op at sbcglobal.net> wrote:

 Subject: Re: [TenTec] Let us have HOPE and SUPPORT
 To: "John King" <k5pgw at yahoo.com>, "tentec at contesting.com" <tentec at contesting.com>, "Discussion of Ten-Tec Equipment" <tentec at contesting.com>
 Date: Tuesday, January 27, 2015, 3:14 PM
 
 Any news of TenTec's
 demise is premature (with apologies to Mark Twain). 
 
 Did you not see John
 Henry's response to this claptrap? You may, of course,
 dismiss John Henry's response with "Of course
 he'd say that! He works there!" That response is
 akin to that from conspiracy theorists: anyone denying a
 conspiracy is, de factor, part of the conspiracy. 
 
 TT is alive and well. If you
 want something that will last forever and be supported
 forever, you'll have to home-brew it and collect an
 inventory of all necessary pasts yourself. Nothing and no
 one keeps a product going forever. 
 
 TenTec, however, is a long ways from death,
 demise, dissolution or liquidation.
 
 Kim N5OP
 
 
 On
 Tuesday, January 27, 2015 2:53 PM, John King via TenTec
 <tentec at contesting.com>
 wrote:
  
 
 
 I have five Ten Tec
 transceivers and have been a true blue believer and
 supporter of Ten Tec since my first 544 station with remote
 VFO and power supply speaker, purchased new in 1977. Just a
 word about what used to be: In the mid 1980s lightning
 struck my home and took out  my 544 and SB220. I explained
 to my wife, K5MOL, that the 544 was history because it was
 solid state and probably fried beyond recovery. She said
 "Well just buy another rig". The next day I
 shipped the 544 to Ten Tec for the "repair" or sad
 OBITUARY that "it was damaged unto death" and must
 be laid to rest. About two days later, I learned of a
 Collins KWM 380 for ONLY $2,200,  which I promptly bought
 from an estate. Two days after purchasing the KWM 380, I
 received the typical "Ten Tec post card" advising
 that my beloved 544 was repaired and that upon receipt of
 slightly over $30.00  including parts, labor and shipping,
 they would ship it back to me.
 
 I revealed the thrilling "good news"
 to K5MOL and her response was at least I had misled her to
 get a new transceiver. Well the marriage survived and after
 54 years continues to survive. I ended up with two KWM 380
 transceivers and then Rockwell announced that it was
 disposing of all parts for Collins Amateur gear and no
 longer offering any support for Collins Amateur gear. Well,
 there I am with about $5000.00 worth of Rockwell Collins
 gear with no support from Rockwell whatsoever!!  Well I
 promptly sold them because parts and service was no longer
 available from Rockwell. I then bought my OMNI VI which I
 still use daily and dearly LOVE!!!
 
 I would like to buy an Eagle (which my brother
 K5QDA bought, on my recommendation just before the
 acquisition of Ten Tec by Alpha), but I am afraid of an
 early demise of available replacement parts and thus service
 by Ten Tec.. I have been told by engineer types that the
 Eagle receiver will out perform most transceivers from the
 Far East costing two to three times that of the Eagle. I am
 sure that you can understand my concern after my
 Rockwell/Collins experience. I have three Icom HF
 transceivers, but my confidence that affordable parts and
 service will be available is weak. The Icoms are used mobile
 in my Coach and for backup. In conclusion, I really am in a
 limbo as to future radios. Elecraft maybe? Please accept my
 apologies for the long email, but maybe you can identify
 with it. 73, John, K5PGW
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