Great point and I think Scott Robbins W4PA bears mentioning in that vain.
He's one of THE top cw contesters in the world.
Flex has already come around with the Maestro, although all of us old
Seinfeld fans chuckle when we hear about "the Maestro." ;-)
Barry N1EU
On Thu, Mar 17, 2016 at 8:30 AM, rick@dj0ip.de <Rick@dj0ip.de> wrote:
> EXCELLENT POINT JIM: having the owner or a senior engineer who actually
> uses the gear himself is priceless!
>
> I have thought for years now that none of the Japanese companies have
> anyone
> in a senior position actually using this stuff. Stuff like key clicks
> (Yaesu), ALC spikes (Kenwood) and user unfriendly menus would not exist if
> they did.
>
> LONG AGO, Al Kahn and Jack Burchfield were contesters.
>
> Al was not only big into DX contests, he and W4KFC actually rescued CQWW DX
> contest from going under when CQ Magazine changed management and was run by
> people not interested in the contests.
>
> Jack preferred the SS contests which back then ran at a faster pace than
> the
> DX contests.
>
> Their "likes" were reflected in the radios they designed, built and sold.
>
> We all get old; when the Argo6 was designed, I think Jack failed to
> recognize that the younger ones among us (and Jim who thinks he's still
> young) want stuff they can run up mountains with and run off of batteries.
>
> IMO this is also the problem FLEX has. Gerald was never a contester and I
> think the new Sun Expert MB-1 and Icom's IC-7300 will prove he was totally
> wrong in thinking and preaching that radios do not need knobs.
>
> On the bright side, Mike (Dishop) is a long time Ten-Tec user and loves his
> Orion.
> We know that Ten-Tec is listening to us here.
> I believe Ten-Tec will be around for a while.
>
> 73 - Rick, DJ0IP
> (Nr. Frankfurt, Germany)
>
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: TenTec [mailto:tentec-bounces@contesting.com] On Behalf Of Jim Brown
> Sent: Thursday, March 17, 2016 9:07 AM
> To: tentec@contesting.com
> Subject: Re: [TenTec] SOTA RADIO
>
> On Thu,3/17/2016 12:38 AM, rick@dj0ip.de wrote:
> > I have a 12 Ah Li-Fe-Po battery that weighs only 4 lbs. It runs at about
> 13v. In comparison, my 9 Ah Gel battery for my motor scooter weighs about
> twice as much.
>
> Yes. if you have to carry it up a trail, LiFePO4 batteries are wonderful. I
> loaned by KX3 plus KXPA100 to AF6RT, who was hiking 2 miles with 2,000
> elevation change with W6JTI to light up a rare 6M grid. W6GJB and I both
> loaned him 20A 13V LiFePO4 batteries. They didn't drain mine in a day, and
> never touched Glen's.
>
> Wayne Burdick, N6KR, one of the two owners of Elecraft and the chief
> engineer, is a backpacker at heart. All of his designs squeeze current draw
> to the absolute minimum, sometimes too much to suit guys using his gear at
> home. :)
>
> With the KX3, I recommend that users set the built-in RXEQ to roll off
> everything below 400 Hz to maximize headroom in the earphones.
>
> 73, Jim K9YC
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