WRL was owned by Leo I. Meyerson, W0GFQ. The company was in Council Bluffs,
Iowa.
Phil C. Sr.
k4dpk
----- Original Message -----
From: "Rick - NJ0IP / DJ0IP" <Rick@DJ0IP.de>
To: "'Discussion of Ten-Tec Equipment'" <tentec@contesting.com>
Sent: Friday, December 17, 2010 10:03 PM
Subject: Re: [TenTec] "The End of Ten-Tec" (Yeah, Right)
> Well the Globe Chief actually was built by World Radio Labs (WRL) - I
> think
> in Colorado.
> Was a great transmitter.
>
> I can't remember the name of the owner of that company but I saw just a
> couple of years ago that he was still around, alive and kicken. It was
> Leo
> something...
>
> 73
> Rick
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: tentec-bounces@contesting.com [mailto:tentec-bounces@contesting.com]
> On Behalf Of Marshall Stewart
> Sent: Friday, December 17, 2010 8:43 PM
> To: 'Discussion of Ten-Tec Equipment'
> Subject: Re: [TenTec] "The End of Ten-Tec" (Yeah, Right)
>
> What about Globe Chief? I made a lot of Q's with my Globe Chief 90A!
>
> 73,
> Marsh, KA5M
> Formerly K5ZNJ (1961)
>
>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: tentec-bounces@contesting.com
> [mailto:tentec-bounces@contesting.com]
>> On Behalf Of Jim Younce
>> Sent: Friday, December 17, 2010 4:17 PM
>> To: Discussion of Ten-Tec Equipment
>> Subject: Re: [TenTec] "The End of Ten-Tec" (Yeah, Right)
>>
>> I doubt that Ten-Tec is about to close the doors. It is a fact that the
>> amateur market is only a small percentage of the company's business.
> Their
>> biggest volume is the manufacture of tools & dies and metal boxes for
>> electronic OEM manufactures. The amateur business was a labor of love
> for
>> Al Cohn and Jack Birtchfield. When Al sold Electro-Voice and bought
>> Ten-Tec
>>
>> a tool and die manufacture they decided to build a ham transceiver. Al
> has
>> since become a silent key and I am sure Jack is ready for retirement or
>> already has retired. Both were great gentlemen to do business with and
> to
>> talk to on the air.
>>
>> However, I am old enough to remember when National Radio, Hallicrafters,
>> Drake, Regency, Multi-Elmac, Gonset, Central Electronics, Swan
>> Electronics,
>> Atlas Radio, Harvey Wells, Morrow Radio, Clegg Laboratories, Webster
>> Bandspanner, Walter Ashe, Technical Material Corp., Barker and
>> Williamson, Peterson Radio, James Millen, Hammurland, EF Johnson,
>> Heathkit, World Radio Labs, Knight, Lafayette, Eico, Ameco, Hornet
>> Antennas,
>>
>> RME Receivers, Master Mobile Antennas, Collins, and several other
> American
>> ham radio manufactures were major players in the manufacture and sales
>> of
>> ham radio gear. Now we are down to two, Ten-Tec and MFJ. Some of the
>> exodus was caused but the failure of engineering departments to keep up
>> with
>>
>> single sideband technology but a great deal of them fell from the Asian
>> manufacture competetion.
>>
>> 73
>>
>> Jim Yoiunce K4ZM
>>
>>
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