[Premium-Rx] Latest Firmware For TT RX340?

Joseph Pistritto jcp at pistritto.org
Mon Oct 24 22:26:59 EDT 2022 

mine is 110B and has 200 memories
  -jcp-
  N3CKF
  WRFG299

On Mon, Oct 24, 2022 at 4:31 PM Arthur Delibert via Premium-Rx <
premium-rx at mailman.qth.net> wrote:

> I understand that older 340s have only 100 memories, while the newer ones
> have 200.  I don't know whether that was a change made with the
> introduction of 110B or at some other point.
>
> Art Delibert, KB3FJO
> ________________________________
> From: premium-rx-bounces at mailman.qth.net <
> premium-rx-bounces at mailman.qth.net> on behalf of Cecil acuff via
> Premium-Rx <premium-rx at mailman.qth.net>
> Sent: Friday, October 21, 2022 3:02 PM
> To: Mac <libbysales at austin.rr.com>
> Cc: premium-rx at mailman.qth.net <premium-rx at mailman.qth.net>
> Subject: Re: [Premium-Rx] Latest Firmware For TT RX340?
>
> Max you are probably right and I fully understand the issue of
> intellectual property.
>
> I would have expected him to at least tell me that 110B was in fact the
> last release of firmware for the 340.  It might be asking a lot for him to
> be able to tell me what the difference is between 110A and 110B but it
> should be documented somewhere especially if these are being sold to
> government entities.
>
> His response was that he doesn’t have time to live in the past he only
> focuses on the future…
>
> I read from that, that we shouldn’t expect any support on TenTec
> equipment, Alpha amps etc…
>
> I have divested myself of all TenTec gear with the exception of my 340 and
> a TenTec linear amp which I’m working on getting rid of.( the amp not the
> 340)
>
> Sad state of affairs!
>
> Cecil
> K5DL
>
> Sent from my iPhone
>
> > On Oct 20, 2022, at 10:06 PM, Mac via Premium-Rx <
> premium-rx at mailman.qth.net> wrote:
> >
> > Cecil,  I think the "owner"   was IMO telling you all truth's, and what
> he has said makes perfect sense, at least to me.  I have bought multiple
> business and just buying the business and presumably inventory and drawing
> and engineering files, that's usually half of what you need..
> >
> > Only one business have i ever not been at the MERCY of 1-3 individuals
> who while i didn't buy them or really even know their names at the outset,
> as i dug in these names/name would pop up in some manner and usually
> crucial to the core process, and to date not a one has ever wanted to
> uproot and move here from where they were located..
> >
> > When ETO was ever first for sale and in Colorado, the deal was near
> done, as Dick and I mused over it all one evening he asked me had i spoken
> to X and how did he feel about things, Dick was candid and the wrap up
> answer was he would sell to me,  but he had serious doubts it would ever
> succeed if i relocated it all here to at the time Dallas.  His logic was
> yes it was his show and brain power for the bulk of it all, but the
> Institutional Knowledge" resided with X and he [Dick] felt it would just
> never work out on the scale i was wanting and expecting.
> >
> > Present day is proof enuff, Dick soon sold and was gone, how many owners
> has ETO/Alpha had and now have, 5 come to mind maybe one more, no matter..
> small point..
> >
> > So my point ? i can easily see the 'owner' telling you the truth that in
> reality he is still chained or tied at the hip to one or several persons in
> Tenn who have the vaunted "Institutional Knowledge"  and he will never have
> that, small niche business and Ten Tech was one, will always be held my
> words 'captive' when these 1-3 guys have you by the balls, it wont be your
> best day when you piss emm off.
> >
> > ETO was my only dalliance outside my core business, {making military
> generator sets}. I went on to buy 7 other business but always a few persons
> were just crucial, even when i was just buying tooling i had to have,i had
> to have Donnie Shibow to run no less, the 150 ton lamination stamping
> press. Having overplayed my hand one day brought it all into focus
> >
> > Lotta blab here, but I think the TT OWNER was feeding you the truth...
> >
> > Best and Cecil thanks for shinning more insight into the 340 receiver
> past and forward.
> >
> > mac/mc  w5mc
> >
> >> On 10/20/2022 3:17 PM, Cecil acuff via Premium-Rx wrote:
> >> I swapped emails with the new owner of TenTec.  His first reply was
> that he didn’t handle any of that, the folks in Tennessee did.  Kind of
> with my feathers ruffled I responded that I assumed he bought the product
> line lock stock and barrel and to my knowledge there were no folks in
> Tennessee.
> >>
> >> His second response was yes he owned it but didn’t fool with firmware
> stuff. He did confirm the RX-340 was still a current product when he could
> get enough parts to build them and he had designed a new DSP board for the
> radio and that the current price was around $8k.  He couldn’t, or wouldn’t
> confirm what version firmware they were currently running but the version I
> have is 110B and it’s the later radio Les mentioned in his note below.
> >>
> >> I’m assuming it is an undocumented update.  I think these are still
> being sold to government entities!
> >>
> >> Cecil
> >> K5DL
> >>
> >> Sent from my iPad
> >>
> >>>> On Oct 20, 2022, at 2:59 PM, Les Locklear via Premium-Rx<
> premium-rx at mailman.qth.net>  wrote:
> >>>
> >>> Here's what I "know" about the firmware versions... Around 2004 not
> sure if it was spring summer or fall, I bought an RX-340 serial no. 10087
> firmware 110A. The previous owner that sold it to me included the older
> firmware modules with a note that they should be returned to Ten Tec so
> they could be updated. I did so. The in late August 2005, hurricane Katrina
> hit in this area. I was a part of an essential team that had to e at
> Keesler AFB in Biloxi, Ms. After three days I was allowed to go see if I
> still had a home...
> >>> I/we did and about 8 days later we had electricity. My wife and
> daughter had sheltered east of here at our son's home in Pensacola,
> Florida. After getting back home and the mess cleaned up from Katrina, tree
> limbs, roof shingles, etc. I decided to sell the RX-340. At that time I had
> a Ten Tec RX-350D which IMHO had a better sync detector and noise blanker.
> >>> It was sold to a friend of Mac McCullough in Texas along with the
> Hammond cabinet.
> >>> Several years passed by and I was able to acquire another Ten Tec
> RX-340 serial no. 10678. I immediately noticed several things that were
> different. The S-Meter was a blue backlite LED, the sync detector actually
> worked and locked on to frequencies and held and the noise blanker actually
> worked. There may have been other improvements, but I never thought of
> them. It was subsequently sold to a friend. During that period from about
> the mid 1990's to the late 2000's, I bought, sold and traded approximately
> 146 receivers, so some details are kind of blurry. I'm now 79 and have
> gotten rid of all but a Hammarlund HQ-180 and an Icom IC756Prolll.
> >>> I have googled and searched and have never found any information
> regarding the differences in the various firmware changes in the Ten Tec
> RX-340 receivers. As far as I know, Ten Tec doesn't service nor provide
> repair service in the RX-340'S.
> >>> Les Locklear
> >>>
> >>>
> >>> Even "Duct Tape" can't fix stupid.
> >>> But, it can sure muffle it.
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>
> >>> ----- Original Message -----
> >>> From: Les Locklear via Premium-Rx<premium-rx at mailman.qth.net>
> >>> Reply-To: Les Locklear<leslocklear at hotmail.com>
> >>> To: EDWARD SYLVESTER<aidehua at aol.com>,<premium-rx at mailman.qth.net>
> >>> Sent: 10/20/2022 11:37:38 AM
> >>> Subject: Re: [Premium-Rx] Latest Firmware For TT RX340?
> >>>
> ________________________________________________________________________________
> >>>
> >>>
> >>> Based on one I owned a couple of years ago, serial no. 10678. Firmware
> V110B. There were slight improvements on the synchronous detection, noise
> blanker. But, I’ve never been able to document what the differences were
> between V110A and B.
> >>>
> >>> Les Locklear
> >>>
> >>> Sent from my iPad
> >>> ________________________________
> >>> From:premium-rx-bounces at mailman.qth.net  <
> premium-rx-bounces at mailman.qth.net>  on behalf of EDWARD SYLVESTER via
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> >>> Sent: Thursday, October 20, 2022 11:29:31 AM
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> >>> Subject: [Premium-Rx] Latest Firmware For TT RX340?
> >>>
> >>> What is the latest version??
> >>>
> >>> Thx/Ed
> >>>
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