greetings, looking to purchase a ten tec delta II - i really like ten tecs and
this one would seem to fit the bill - its small and more simple operation it
seems, just what i'm looking for after a stint with a flex radio SDR-1000.
73, john
> From: wmgoins@gmail.com
> Date: Sun, 23 May 2010 21:29:54 -0500
> To: tentec@contesting.com
> Subject: Re: [TenTec] New TT website
>
> He was also apparently having distribution issues. There were a couple
> of people handling the rig for him here - at least one in the US and
> another in Canada - but it didn't seem to be working out. He even sold
> them on the auction site and sold some as kits.
>
> I tried to find one new and simply could not. Nothing to be found
> through Internet searches or whatever. Did find one from a ham who had
> two and the truth is that I really, really like it.
>
> No one but insiders will ever really know, but it LOOKS like he cut a
> deal with TT that works for both of them. It's a cool little radio and
> he has a solid distribution partner. Do I wish it was a TenTec
> designed and built rig - yep. But it's 2010 and it's simple global
> economics.
>
> Michael Goins, k5wmg
> Pipe Creek, Texas
> Fast cars, slow boats, big dogs, little yellow radios, and summers off to
> write
>
>
>
>
>
>
> 2010/5/23 Ron Notarius W3WN <wn3vaw@verizon.net>:
> > I've been doing a little checking, and I have yet to hear or read anything
> > significantly bad about the BD4RG HB-1A rig.
> >
> > So let's do a small reality check. Ten-Tec wants to introduce a new QRP
> > radio, they come across this design, they find out that they can have a
> > version of it built for them at an affordable price. So what's not to like?
> >
> > Would I have preferred that it be built in Tennessee? Certainly. But for
> > the company to survive, it may have been inevitable that some of their
> > manufacturing would be out-sourced, just to stay competitively priced.
> >
> > We don't know all the details, we may never know them, and for that matter,
> > it's probably not all for the public ears anyway. It could be that they are
> > currently so busy with equipment (amateur, commercial, and military) that
> > they couldn't squeeze something else into the production line schedule, for
> > example. So this is not necessarily a bad thing.
> >
> > And let's be realistic. Let's say Ten-Tec decides, for example, to
> > introduce a small mobile HF rig... imagine an updated Argonaut V with 100 W
> > output, for example. [I used to talk about such a possibility with Scott,
> > way back when, and the answer I got was that it wasn't cost effective for
> > Ten-Tec to do so -- the interest was there, but they couldn't price it in
> > such a way as to be affordable (and competitive with others) and
> > profitable.] If this new radio works out, and the opportunity presents
> > itself, let's say that the new rig CAN be built at BD4RG's facility... and
> > the retail cost to you is $599 or less. Would you buy that radio, even if
> > it were made overseas? [I know I'd strongly consider it if I had the
> > shekels to spend at the time... and probably would] And the alternative
> > is... no radio at any price?
> >
> > My biggest concern however... well, a few of you on the list remember the
> > Drake TR-22. Which was built for them with their design by a company called
> > Trio. What happened next? Well, do you remember the Trio-Kenwood TR-2200?
> > The rest I leave as an intellectual exercise for the curious.
> >
> > The bottom line is that this is going to be very interesting. I hope for
> > Ten-Tec's sake (and for ours, for that matter) that it works out well. We
> > shall see.
> >
> > And with any luck, come this fall, I will be able to get my hands on one
> > myself.
> >
> > 73, ron w3wn
> >
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: tentec-bounces@contesting.com [mailto:tentec-bounces@contesting.com]
> > On Behalf Of Bwana Bob
> > Sent: Sunday, May 23, 2010 2:32 PM
> > To: Discussion of Ten-Tec Equipment
> > Subject: Re: [TenTec] New TT website
> >
> > It looks like it was designed to compete with the Elecraft KX-1 and the
> > Hendricks TFR. Personally, I would prefer a kit radio.
> >
> >
> > 73,
> >
> > Bob WB2VUF
> >
> > Michael Goins wrote:
> >> Yep. It's the Chinese rig by BD4RG with TenTec's name now on it. If
> >> you pull up the manuals for the rig the schematic is still the same
> >> and it has HB-1A on it.
> >>
> >> This is a really a fun little rig and the price is pretty good built
> >> and ready to go. The audio is a little raspy on the original ones and
> >> a little low. Wonder if it was corrected for this version and hte
> >> schematic just hasn't been changed on the instruction sheets. Again, I
> >> wonder why they split it into 20/30 and 30/40 when the original is
> >> 20/30/40. Find that a little odd.
> >>
> >> Mike
> >> Pipe Creek, Texas
> >> Fast cars, slow boats, big dogs, little radios, and summers off to write
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >> 2010/5/21 Fotis SV8ING <sv8ing@yahoo.gr>:
> >>> It's www.tentec.com
> >>> and I see there a new TT site!
> >>>
> >>> 73
> >>>
> >>> Fotis SV8ING Papadellis
> >>>
> >>> GREECE
> >>>
> >>> --- Στις Παρ., 21/05/10, ο/η Kris Merschrod <Kris@merschrod.net> έγραψε:
> >>>
> >>> Από: Kris Merschrod <Kris@merschrod.net>
> >>> Θέμα: Re: [TenTec] New TT website
> >>> Προς: "Discussion of Ten-Tec Equipment" <tentec@contesting.com>
> >>> Ημερομηνία: Παρασκευή, 21 Μάιος 2010, 14:37
> >>>
> >>> Good afternoon Fotis,
> >>>
> >>> Please tell us where the new T T website is. That is, please send the
> > www.
> >>> address or URL.
> >>>
> >>> 73,
> >>> Kris KM2KM
> >>> Merschrod
> >>> 123 Warren Road
> >>> Ithaca, NY 14850
> >>> www.merschrod.net
> >>> ----- Original Message -----
> >>> From: "Fotis SV8ING" <sv8ing@yahoo.gr>
> >>> To: "Discussion of Ten-Tec Equipment" <tentec@contesting.com>
> >>> Sent: Friday, May 21, 2010 10:25 AM
> >>> Subject: [TenTec] New TT website
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>> A new TT website is out there!
> >>>>
> >>>> 73
> >>>>
> >>>> Fotis SV8ING Papadellis
> >>>>
> >>>> GREECE
> >>>>
> >>>>
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