[CW] What is best CW transceiver??

[scott mcmullen]

--- On Thu, 8/21/08, Ken Brown <ken.d.brown at hawaiiantel.net> wrote:

> I doubt that you could get a better CW rig for the money, 
> than by buying a excellent condition used Ten-Tec rig of 
> the Omni VI or earlier variety. In addition to the
> excellent CW performance, they are serviceable. When you get 
> inside of an Omni VI or Paragon (the only Ten-Tec rigs I have
> experience with) it is more like opening up a piece of 
> electronics test lab gear than opening up a piece of 
> consumer electronics. 

I thought I was about the only ham that had felt this way
about it.

I have a Ten-Tec Omni 6 opt 3 (which I bought used from Ten-Tec,
when a lot of these were being traded in on Orion 1's), and I 
feel a sense of "deja vu" looking in the interior. It reminds 
me of some of the Tektronix or Hewlett Packard pulse generators 
or other instruments I've used.

When I look in my old Kenwood rig (TS-520, which I do like, by 
the way), it looks "cheap" by comparison, like a piece of 
"consumer electronics".

The printed circuit boards are clearly not as well made.

73
Scott
W5ESE