[Yaesu] Yaesu, Icom, Kenwood, and Ten-Tec Fighting

[Cook, Thomas A]

It appears that TenTec is more "open" with regards to admitting to and
addressing problems.  This is from BOTH a TenTec and ICOM owner.  Tom -
WA2BPE

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> From: 	Adam L. Davis[SMTP:ALD270373@worldnet.att.net]
> Sent: 	Monday, October 20, 1997 12:31 PM
> To: 	yaesu@contesting.com
> Subject: 	[Yaesu] Yaesu, Icom, Kenwood, and Ten-Tec Fighting
> 
> After several months of reading the great info that I was finding on
> the
> reflector, I finally thought I found a group where no one was going to
> argue with each other. And then I open the archive this morning to
> Ten-Tec Owners who hate Yaesu, and people argueing, not to mention an
> e-mail from a Ten-Tec ham who said because of bug that I discovered in
> my FT-900CAT, that I should've gone with a Omni VI Plus, because my
> 900
> is a peice of *&*^. I did not come to this archive to get blasted
> about
> my choice of equipment, if I did, I would have gone to the news
> groups.
> I came here to find out if anyone was experiencing the same problem as
> I.
> Look, Ten-Tec makes a fine radio. Yes it does have bugs, but Ten-Tec
> does seem to be trying to take care of it. My 900 has its share of
> bugs
> also. As we have discovered with the Icom IC-756, just read the QST
> review. As with the Kenwood radios. No radio is perfect. And someone
> who
> choses a Ten-Tec (Which by the way, in my opinion has the best CW wave
> form and TRX switching @ full break-in, when you can actually hear
> between the dots at 40 wpm then any other radio on the market.) Omni
> over a Yaesu 1000MP or a Kenwood TS-570D or IC-756, that is their
> choice. No one makes a bad radio these days. Lets put the differnces
> behind us.
> If the person who sent me the nasty e-mail on my 900CAT wants to
> e-mail
> me and tell me why I should have gone with an Omni VI Plus, please by
> all means, go ahead and write me, and I will tell him why I decided to
> go with a 900, and one of those reasons has to do with the fact that
> Ten-Tec does not make a general covereage reciever, and I did not want
> to get a HF-Tranciever and then add on top of it another Reciever. I
> just wanted one box.
> So lets keep the fighting off of the reflector, we are all adults, and
> we should behave like them. I left a flight simulator forum for the
> exact same reason that I am seeing here. Lets make this an isolated
> difference.
> 
> Adam L. Davis
> KB2GEG
> 
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