The person complaining about price also complained about the size of the
radio. I find the large enclosure quite handy when I need to open it and
play with the filters or whatnot. I also like the large presence on my
desktop. I think a 706 looks rather ridiculous in a hamshack.
Keep 'em large, Marge.
W1ADE
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>> I consider $2600 outrageous for an antique that's the size of a 50's
>>hi-fi and has to be bought factory direct, thus not supporting any
>>local ham shops. ($1500 would put it more in the ballpark.)
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>
>this is an intresting comment, so a little history to those that do not know
>why you can only buy Ten-Tec factory direct.
>years ago Ten-Tec did actually did market there ham gear to dealers, they
>were slowly going out of bussiness, that's when they took the approach of
>buying factory direct only, a call to Ten-Tec answered my question, which
>was, why did you guys go factory direct only, the answer was simple, seems
>all of the "ham dealers" were pushing the japanese radios, and not the
>american radios, so it seems that the american dealers were not supporting
>there own local manufacture !
>as the crew at Ten-Tec said, it was either go direct, or go out of bussiness
>selling to the amateur radio market. For me, i sure am glad that they did
>not go and do that ! as i have used all ot the other high priced radios on
>the market, (which by the way, they are also just as big,if not bigger than
>the omni-6,so i guess that makes them big old anitques to !) and i'll take
>my omni-6 anyday !
>
>73... ken k7zum a ten year very satisified owner of Ten-Tec
>gear
>
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