[TRLog] What the....?

John Unger w4au@contesting.com
Tue, 19 Dec 2000 11:22:56 -0500


Hi Denny -

Maybe you shouldn't have given up on Ten-Tec so easily :-)

I've been using an Omni VI for a few years now with TRLog and it works FB in terms of reading and changing frequency, etc. I don't have the "full" control over the rig like I get with my TS-850, but then I find that I like to turn knobs rather than use SHIFT keys, anyway. I even run a "Y" connector off the Omni's serial output to a box that switches my ICE band pass filter box automatically.

Perhaps Ten-Tec have implemented ICOM's codes better than they have, but the only glitches that I have seen are definitely RF-induced when I try to run the amp full bore with a Windom on 40 -- lots of RF floating around the shack.

73 - John, W4AU


At 08:36 AM 12/15/00 -0500, you wrote:

>I agree on Ten Tec, Tree... I have been a rabid supporter of "Buy American",
>forever... As  a result I have shelves full of forty years worth of
>Heathkit, Drake, and Ten Tec, HF gear... However, getting back into
>contesting after a layoff I was ready for a new run radio and I took  a
>long, hard look at every offering... After wrestling with my conscience for
>weeks <I literally sweated bullets over buying foreign> I chose the Yaseau
>MKV with a full load of filters... I used it in CQWW, ssb and cw , with
>TR-Log... I had zero problems that I know of, both with the radio and with
>the interface to TR-Log...
>I feel really bad over abandoning Ten Tec, but they are surrendering their
>position in the top of the line, contest radio ranks, and putting their
>dollars into the volume driven, computer radios... Probably, a good business
>decision, but not one that helps me...
>
>Cheers  ...  Denny


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