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Re: [TenTec] OT: NEW FT-857D for $96

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Subject: Re: [TenTec] OT: NEW FT-857D for $96
From: geoffrey mendelson <geoffreymendelson@gmail.com>
Reply-to: Discussion of Ten-Tec Equipment <tentec@contesting.com>
Date: Wed, 28 May 2014 12:48:13 +0300
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On 5/28/2014 12:41 PM, Rick - DJ0IP / NJ0IP wrote:
I'm fully aware of the lack of quality in the front end filters and in the
TX filters of most Chinese equipment currently here.


For $96 dollars it won't be addressed. By the time places like the 409 shop get it, it will be $250 ($200 for the radio, $50 for the included postage), the radios will have better quality control, and therefore be more reliable and have better filtering. However as long as they are shipped from outside your country, it is the importer (purchasing ham's) problem if it needs better filtering.

Look at what happened to the $99 3 band HF rig that was first sold as a kit from China, then assembled units from Canada. Both Ten-Tec and MFJ bought licenses and came out with US versions.

Geoff.
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Geoffrey S. Mendelson 4X1GM/N3OWJ Jerusalem Israel.
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