[TenTec] Pimp My Eagle

[Jim Spires]

Sorry. Mistake as you can tell. 

> On Jan 7, 2016, at 1:08 PM, Jim Spires via TenTec <tentec at contesting.com> wrote:
> 
> Have two hats and some money brining to you this afternoon. 
> 
>> On Jan 7, 2016, at 1:03 PM, Brian KA9EGW <ka9egw at ka9egw.com> wrote:
>> 
>> 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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