[Premium-Rx] TenTec RX331

[Craig S McCartney]

I second the opinion; I have both an RX330B and an RX331 and they are
the standard of comparison in my shack.  In addition, we used hundreds
of them in a commercial network that I helped put together starting in
1995.  In that, worldwide, application they were very reliable; we had a
failure rate less than one percent per year.


Craig McCartney
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-----Original Message-----
From: premium-rx-bounces at mailman.qth.net
[mailto:premium-rx-bounces at mailman.qth.net] On Behalf Of James A. (Andy)
Moorer
Sent: Thursday, September 24, 2009 5:17 PM
To: premium-rx at mailman.qth.net; Larry Strong
Subject: Re: [Premium-Rx] TenTec RX331

I have one. It is basically the "headless" version of the RX340 - that
is, it has no front-panel controls except on/off. It performs
identically to the RX340 - EXCEPT:

This appears to be true of all radios when you computer control them.
On the version with the big tuning wheel (the RX340 in this case), the
tuning is nice and smooth and continuous.
When you tune using the computer, it clicks badly when moving from one
frequency to the next. It may just be that the control program (ergo4)
isn't sending the correct commands, but so far, all the computer
controllable receivers (R-8B, IC-9000, etc) don't tune smoothly when
under computer control.
Bummer.

Oh yes - the RX-331 (and RX-340) are fabulous receivers. Very sensitive,
very versatile. No complaints. Very much in the R-8B "mold". If you are
comfortable with a computer-controlled receiver and can live with the
"quantized" tuning, then you will love the RX-331. Makes a lot of other
receivers look like toys.

James A. (Andy) Moorer
www.jamminpower.com

----- Original Message ----- 

>I have a chance to buy one but can anyone on the list that has one tell

>me how good of radio it is. I know it is only computer controlled. How

>does it rate compared to other radios?
>
> Regards
> Larry Strong

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