Glenn, you're not likening Ten-Tec to *cockroaches,* are you? Or that
cockroaches exist because of marketing? :)
You're quite right: somebody should write a book about Ten-Tec. I'd be
willing to do it, but it would be a long-term (measured in years!) project.
And you'd need all sorts of access to pictures and people -- by no means a
difficult task, but one that would be, for me, just a hobby. Any
professional authors out there?
73,
Joe, W2RBA
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> Subject: [TenTec] RAER RX-10 RECEIVER FS
>
>
> Hi Steve,
>
> Good question. I don't know if PM preceded the RX-10 or maybe they were
> developed together. Of the three units that I received one was a
> demo unit
> and not NOS. I did open it and it looks very similar to the PM-1
> when they
> used a single board configuration. Possibly, the PM and RX were
> released at
> the same time.
>
> I talked to the infamous Paul Clinton at Ten Tec yesterday and asked if
> anyone had given much thought ito writing a real history of Ten
> Tec. With TT
> now a very established American Amateur Radio Icon, someone
> should write the
> company story. It is interesting that when TT started out, there were
> companies building and selling MUCH better designed and built
> gear. HeathKit,
> Drake, Swan, Collins and even Halicrafters. They are now all
> history except
> Drake and Rockwell Collins and neither of them are in the Amateur Radio
> Business. Reminds of the stories about the lowly cockroach being
> almost the
> only survivor of the last Ice Age. Not that I consider TT to be
> an insect or
> other ground dwelling inhabitant but maybe they were at the right
> place in
> hte market at the right time.
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