[Boatanchors] Boatanchors Digest, Vol 116, Issue 45

[Grant Youngman]

Not true, actually. I don't know about the latest crop, but the Orion and Orion II are both more than competent on AM, and hardly rate as plastic radios.  Couldn't convince them to put a SAM detector in the thing, but otherwise they worked very well with an excellent, "real", high quality DSB AM transmit signal that always got good reports ...

Grant NQ5T

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> On Sep 28, 2013, at 6:44 PM, Warren Elly <w1gud4 at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> Tentec ain't the real deal - even the japs put am
> In their rigs
> 
> 73
> Warren
> W1gud
> 
> 
> 
> 
>> On Sep 27, 2013, at 9:28 PM, Rob Atkinson <ranchorobbo at gmail.com> wrote:
>> 
>> 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
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