[Premium-Rx] TenTec RX331

[WALTER SALMANIW]

2 comments here.  I owned an RX-340 for just over a year.  Never did get a service manual, nor would Ten-Tec sell me one.  They insisted on sending the unit back for repair (which I had to do for a minor issue).  You are lucky!  2nd point:  Although a fabulous SW receiver, it was a rather poor performer for MW and LW, and hence I sold mine.  My receivers at a tenth of the price outperformed the 340 on MW!  .......Walt

----- Original Message -----
From: Craig S McCartney <CMcCartney at on-sitetraining.com>
Date: Thursday, September 24, 2009 7:53 pm
Subject: Re: [Premium-Rx] TenTec RX331
To: premium-rx at mailman.qth.net

>  
> David,
> 
> Your receiver probably came from one of our (copycat) 
> competitors, not
> us.  Our network is still going strong ~300 HF channels at 25+
> locations, worldwide.  One of the competitors was based in 
> the US
> Northeast...
> 
> That's a fair price; we paid Ten-Tec ~$2300 depending on the order
> quantity.
> 
> Craig McCartney
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> 
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: David I. Emery [mailto:die at dieconsulting.com] 
> Sent: Thursday, September 24, 2009 5:58 PM
> To: Craig S McCartney
> Cc: premium-rx at mailman.qth.net; Larry Strong
> Subject: Re: [Premium-Rx] TenTec RX331
> 
> On Thu, Sep 24, 2009 at 05:51:43PM -0700, Craig S McCartney wrote:
> >  
> > 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.
> 
> I wonder if mine came from your network.   It showed up
> (actually
> a bunch of them showed up out of which I bought one) at the MIT 
> flea and
> Hosstraders a few years ago and I was told these were used with 
> a HF
> email network for yachts... that had shut down.
> 
> Price was pretty good - think I paid $550 or so... complete with
> service manual...
> 
> 
> --
>   Dave Emery N1PRE/AE, die at dieconsulting.com  DIE 
> Consulting, Weston,
> Mass 02493 "An empty zombie mind with a forlorn barely readable
> weatherbeaten 'For Rent' sign still vainly flapping outside on 
> the weed
> encrusted pole - in celebration of what could have been, but 
> wasn't and
> is not to be now either."
> 
> 
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