Re: [TenTec] Ten-Tec market visibility

["chacuff" <chacuff@cableone.net>]

I agree..but you didn't have to yell....


Cecil
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Rodney" <w3krq@dejazzd.com>
To: "Discussion of Ten-Tec Equipment" <tentec@contesting.com>
Sent: Monday, August 27, 2012 5:26 PM
Subject: Re: [TenTec] Ten-Tec market visibility


> Yes,  AT TEN TEC YOU CAN GET A RADIO FOR 30 DAYS TO CHECK OUT, TRY THIS 
> WITH
> OTHER RADIO OUTLET'S WHAT IS THE GOOD AT LOOKING AT THEM ON A TABLE.
>
> -----Original Message----- 
> From: Mike Hyder -N4NT-
> Sent: Monday, August 27, 2012 5:07 PM
> To: Discussion of Ten-Tec Equipment
> Subject: Re: [TenTec] Ten-Tec market visibility
>
> One way the name Ten-Tec gets spread around is by positive word-of-mouth
> from fans of the brand and the products.
>
> 73, Mike N4NT
>
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "Douglas" <sparks06524@yahoo.com>
> To: <tentec@contesting.com>
> Sent: Monday, August 27, 2012 15:46
> Subject: [TenTec] Ten-Tec market visibility
>
>
> > I just got back from the New England ARRL convention at Boxboro, Mass.
> >
> > Ten-Tec was conspicuously absent. With no dealers selling their products,
> > minimal QST advertising and little attendance at larger Hamfests, how 
> > does
> > Ten-Tec expect to continue to be a factor in the Amateur Equipment
> > marketplace?
> >
> > Their QST ads have shrunk from being a full page ad near the beginning of
> > the magazine to a quarter page ad (at best) buried near the end of the
> > magazine.
> >
> > Meanwhile, Elecraft and Flex Radio were conducting forums and had large
> > displays. An Elecraft KX3 and a Flexradio 1500 were among the prizes 
> > given
> > away. Of course, the factory displays from YaeComWood were large and
> > conspicuous.
> >
> > The DX dinner and the DXpedition presentation increased a lot of talk
> > about the Elecraft K3's used in the expedition. If their was talk at all
> > about Ten-Tec and its products it was in the past tense with words like
> > "Elecraft is eating them for lunch".
> >
> > Even if Ten-Tec is hurting financially (I don't know that as a fact but
> > wonder why they have cut back their advertising), they had better up 
> > their
> > marketing and visibility or they won't be long for the Amateur Radio
> > marketplace.
> >
> > By the way, this convention had its best year in over a decade with an
> > attendance that exceeded 2,000. With the number of ham license holders
> > near an all time high of over 700,000, the rumors of the death of our
> > hobby are greatly exaggerated.
> >
> > 73,
> >
> > Doug/WA1TUT
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