[TenTec] Pimp My Eagle

[Brian KA9EGW]

I have my entire station in [one, for now] 7-foot EIA 19" rack, and
rack-mount capability is a BIG plus IMHO.  I also have big hands...

73, Brian KA9EGW


-----Original Message-----
From: TenTec [mailto:tentec-bounces at contesting.com] On Behalf Of Steve Berg
Sent: Thursday, January 07, 2016 12:38 PM
To: tentec at contesting.com
Subject: Re: [TenTec] Pimp My Eagle

I came very close to buying an Eagle.  And, the reasons I didn't have
largely been covered by Rick.  The deciding factor was the lack of keyboard
frequency entry.  Another is that I have large hands, and the front panel
was a bit crowded.  Instead of trying to make microscopic radios, Ten Tec
might want to look at a past, though unjustly maligned pair of products, the
Delta II and Argonaut II radios.  These units are small, but have most of
the front panel capabilities of the much larger Omni V and VI units.  Using
a slightly larger front panel on the line of the Argo II on the Eagle Plus
would go a long way on making these radios a lot more attractive to people
like me.  And the controls on the older units are much more intuitively
obvious than those on  many of their newer products.  I rarely had to look
at the cheat sheet for my Argonaut II, but have to keep the manuals for the
Omni VII and Argonaut VI within reach.  If I want to change the CW speed on
the Omni VII or Argonaut VI, I have to consult the manual for the sequence
of adjustments needed to do this.  With my older Ten Tec rigs, I adjust a
knob.  I wound up buying an Omni VII, and once I discovered that it offered
little in the way of increased performance over my Corsair II, it ended up
on the shelf.  The Corsair II does not have keyboard frequency entry, but it
is so easy to use well.

My Argonaut II is sitting in Ten Tec Service.  I'm looking forward to its
return, fixed.

I am glad that the Argonaut VI is apparently going to be retained. Those are
a subset of the Eagle, and are one phenomenal little radio!

My $0.02

Steve WA9JML




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