Ah, yes... the infamous major and minor loop board soldering problem. My
Paragon fell prey to that New Years Day. UNLOCK! I debated sending it
back to Ten-Tec but decided to fix it myself. Basically I removed all
the solder from the boards... did a careful examination which lead to
several traces that were just too close to one another... fixed those
and resoldered. It worked immediately. I guess the circuit board vendor
didn't do a great job on those boards.
I really like the Paragon... love the FADE and BP controls. It is not as
sensitive as my Omni-VI+ on 15 and 10 meters and the Ten-Tec engineers
told that was to be expected due to its general coverage design but it
isn't that far off. For general haming around I use the Paragon... for
contesting I use the Omni-VI+. I often think the Omni-V is probably a
great meld of these two transceivers and I'm saving up to get one to add
to my small Ten-Tec collection.
73, Jerry, KG6TT
Jim G wrote:
Chuck, unless you are interested in AM go for the Paragon. It is a superb
unit. True there was a problem with soldering on the major and minor loop
boards but Paul and his boys at Ten Tec can take care of that in fine shape.
I just got mine back from TT for those repairs. Dollar for dollar it can
not be beat My total bill for the repair less shipping was $82.50. Compare
that with repair on the rice boxes. I used the FT1000D until I came across
a Paragon and the 1000D and I have parted company.
Jim
K1QCF
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