I agree with all you said! I plan to have one of those little rigs as soon as
they are available.
Paul Gates
> From: wn3vaw@verizon.net
> To: tentec@contesting.com
> Date: Sun, 23 May 2010 22:00:09 -0400
> Subject: Re: [TenTec] New TT website
>
> 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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