The era of the TS-930S coincided with the Corsair I.
I used to put the 930 and a Corsair on the air, side by side, listening to
the same signal, sharing the antenna with a switch, and demonstrated how
superior the Corsair was in receiving to the 930. (This was back in the
days when I worked at a local store, now closed, and TenTec had a dealer
network). Heck, we'd do the same thing with a Kenwood 930 & the Argosy (and
later Argosy II) and you wouldn't belive how close they were. And this was
done without any additional filters installed in any of the rigs! The
Argosy had a better receiver than the 430, based on the same side-by-side
comparison, and if you asked for an honest signal report on the air between
the 430 & Argosy, at most the (50 W) Argosy was only an S unit or so below
the 430's (100W) signal.
And 4 times out of 5, if they bought a rig, they bought the Kenwood or the
ICOM 745 or 751 for the bells & whistles.
73, ron wn3vaw
'Never attribute to malice that which is adequately
explained by stupidity.' --Hanlon's Razor
----- Original Message -----
From: "Jim Reid" <jimr.reid@verizon.net>
To: "Mark Rauchfuss" <mark.rauchfuss@worldnet.att.net>; <tlogan7@cox.net>
Cc: "'tentec'" <tentec@contesting.com>
Sent: Thursday, January 30, 2003 9:45 PM
Subject: Re: [TenTec] Disparaging Corsairs, Pro II, etc hi hi
> in the emails there was more than once a reference to Kenwood
> having at one time made the best cw rigs ever made. I cannot
> remember which models were referred to - the 830 or 850
> maybe?
There was a time, several years ago, when many CW contesting
stations were big into using the Kenwood TS-930S; that
was in mid-80's I believe, just before the time of the Corsair,
or perhaps, just as they were being introduced by Ten Tec.
The 830 and 850 were earlier than the 930, of course.
Jack Wheeler, KH6CC, down on the Big Island of Hawaii
has won the CQ 160 meter CW test for years(decades), at least
for Oceana, using a pair of Kenwood 850's. He also uses
a straight key as well, hi. (He is 83 years young now,
so not sure he is that active anymore for 48 hour contesting, hi).
73, Jim KH7M
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