[TenTec] SOTA RADIO

[Tim]

Thanks for the word Geoff.

Check page 48, center column, of the September 2012 QST review of the 
HB-1B for the comment I was remembering concerning using an amplifier. I 
didn't remember that it was about key clicks.

Tim
KE4KE




On 03/19/2016 12:39 PM, geoffrey mendelson wrote:
> On 3/19/2016 7:32 PM, Tim wrote:
>>
>> By the way, I do remember reading that one should not put an 
>> amplifier after the HB-1B as it might not then pass FCC requirements. 
>> So to me that would be one excuse for taking the KX-3.
> The original radio would not have passed FCC approval. It was sold as 
> a kit from China, then a relative of the vendor brought some kits into 
> Canada and sold them on eBay. Since they were kits, and not actual 
> radios, they did not have to have FCC approval.
>
> Both MFJ and Ten-Tec bought rights to sell them assembled, and in 
> order to pass FCC approval had to add output filtering. I forget 
> which, but one company sold them as two band radios, and the other as 
> single band.
>
> Geoff.
>