[TenTec] TenTec Digest, Vol 157, Issue 5

[Paul Gates]

I will never pay $140.00 an hour for in the first place I cannot afford a
$3000.00  radio. I had a lot of TenTec radios in the 70s and 80s and never
paid more than $600.00 for a radio. Right now I have a Delta 580 which
probably was manufactured around 1979. I have never sent it in for repairs.
4 years ago I sent it in to be checked over and it sounds good as ever. I
paid around $150.00 to have it checked over. The ssb sound is beautiful and
is as good as my Drake TR4 did! <g> My wife and I are retired and our
yearly income would buy a $3000.00 radio! So I have to be satisfied with my
Delta. I well remember all the complaining and swearing when the first
Orion came out.

Paul Gates, KW4BD
Leesburg, Florida

On Wed, Jan 6, 2016 at 6:20 AM, Amateur Radio WB8NUT <duffy at wb8nut.com>
wrote:

> That rate is very high.
>
> If you pay your bench techs $40 an hour, then add burdened labor rate of
> 50% on to that, it is $60 an hour. Then add another 50% for overhead and
> profit, you arrive at $80. So that is some massive profit percentage being
> charged to a customer.
>
> Now many customers like me in the past paid more for their radio from
> TenTec because of the former legendary service and support. Now that
> support and service is going to be very costly, why do I want to pay more
> for the radio? So if service pricing is going up dramatically, then the
> cost of the radios needs to come down to be more competitive with the
> Japanese brands.
>
> At this point, we are no longer dealing with the old TenTec. What was
> TenTec is largely gone. We have someone who owns the name, and designs, but
> other than that, TenTec is pretty much starting from scratch so it is
> really going to be a new company.
>
> JMHO
>
> Duffy
> www.wb8nut.com
>
> >
> > Message: 4
> > Date: Tue, 5 Jan 2016 09:35:10 -0600
> > From: Dalton <w4wuq at att.net>
> > To: Discussion of Ten-Tec Equipment <tentec at contesting.com>
> > Subject: Re: [TenTec] TEN-TEC Announcement January 4, 2016
> > Message-ID: <795E4C93-332F-44E3-BD50-1A383A9F69CA at att.net>
> > Content-Type: text/plain;     charset=us-ascii
> >
> > I agree, seems high.  Even higher if tax is added on top of that.  Maybe
> we all need to revert back to the days of the Heathkit SB series
> equipment.  For the most part those can be repaired at home.  None of these
> surface mount components in them.  They had room to get around circuits.
> >
> > 73,
> > Dalton - W4WUQ
> > w4wuq at arrl.net
> > Sent from my iPad
> >
> >> On Jan 4, 2016, at 8:46 PM, Jim Vohland <n9vo at hotmail.com> wrote:
> >>
> >> Sounds like reasonable repair policy except for one thing.  Don't most
> repair facilities charge a "repair estimate" fee but only if you don't have
> unit repaired. 265 minimum plus shipping just seems a bit high.  But guess
> I could be out of touch.
> >>
> >> Sent from my iPhone
> >>>
> >>>>>
> >>>>> -------------------------------------------------------------
> >>>>> ______________________________________________
> >
> >
> >
> >> On Jan 5, 2016, at 10:30 AM, John Henry <jshenry1963 at gmail.com> wrote:
> >>
> >> Regarding the inputs from 73, Jim K9YC
> >>
> >> I believe you said it better than I ever could.
> >> People that don't run a business with overhead forget all of the
> ancillary
> >> costs of just doing business itself. Let alone whether that business is
> >> repairing cars or manufacturing and repairing transceivers.
> >>
> >> Thanks for your inputs,
> >> 73, KI4JPL
> >> John Henry
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