[Boatanchors] Boatanchors Digest, Vol 116, Issue 45

[Richard Knoppow]

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Rob Atkinson" <ranchorobbo at gmail.com>
To: "Bry Carling" <bcarling at cfl.rr.com>
Cc: <boatanchors at mailman.qth.net>
Sent: Friday, September 27, 2013 6:28 PM
Subject: Re: [Boatanchors] Boatanchors Digest, Vol 116, 
Issue 45


> For a long time Ten Tec derided the idea of including AM 
> as a mode in
> their SSB-CW plastic radios.  I've been told they'd sneer 
> at anyone
> who asked for AM to be included as a mode.  I think one 
> rig, the
> Paragon included fake AM (one sideband plus injected 
> carrier) but that
> was it.  For a long time they were known for making good 
> CW
> transceivers.  I still own one that I use for that 
> occasionally and
> also as a signal source.  But their marketing must have 
> told them CW
> is a dead end so they've thrown CW under the bus 
> evidently, because
> now their ad slogan is "The SSB Company."  Since Ten Tec 
> never made a
> boatanchor I'll stop here.
>
> 73
>
> Rob
> K5UJ

     Ten-Tec is not the first, Collins pretty much abandoned 
both AM and CW with the S- line.  The CW problems got fixed 
in the later versions but was useless in the earlier ones.


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Richard Knoppow
Los Angeles
WB6KBL
dickburk at ix.netcom.com