[Premium-Rx] Latest Firmware For TT RX340?
Les Locklear
leslocklear at hotmail.com
Tue Oct 25 14:40:17 EDT 2022
A Rolex that keeps "perfect time?" That would be an oddity. I had a Rolex Submariner back while in the Navy 1960-1964 Bought it in 1961. If I still had it when learning how to use a sextant (in my sailing days in the 70's - late 90's), I would not have been able to get very close to where we were going. I have a Citizen Nighthawk that keeps within 5-6 seconds a month. The simple way to check and synchronize it is with WWV these days.
Les Locklear
"You can have a college degree and legitimate parents and still be a dumb bastard".
An Old Retired Mechanical Engineer
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From: Mac via Premium-Rx <premium-rx at mailman.qth.net>
Reply-To: Mac <libbysales at austin.rr.com>
To: Cecil acuff <chacuff at gmail.com>, Joseph Pistritto <jcp at pistritto.org>
Cc: <premium-rx at mailman.qth.net>
Sent: 10/25/2022 10:33:43 AM
Subject: Re: [Premium-Rx] Latest Firmware For TT RX340?
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Yah i get the whole Rolex thing...
My wife gave me my Rolex in 1978' as her wedding gift to me .. I had a
much sought after R-390A EAC brand still got it as well as the watch..
Rolex still weighs 6 oz or so keeps perfect time been cleaned and
adjusted one time, best I can tell if i had a notion to sell it ? 5X
over what the wife paid for it. As an aside ? I'll never figure out
where in 1978 she found the money to buy the Rolex..
The R-390A receiver ? Well it still weighs the same heavy ass 90 pounds,
way harder to move around, still looks as good however works fair to
good, on the best day I might get what I paid for it, or a bit less..
When I die ? my kids will likely toss the 390A with most of my other
radio crap, been no request for radio crap, not so for the Rolex, each
one wants it.
funny how this all works out..
Best: mac/mc w5mc
On 10/24/2022 10:20 PM, Cecil acuff wrote:
> Well…it looks like there is more V110B out there than I thought.
>
> I think the B version has improved AGC and improved Sync for sure.
>
> Don’t plan to sell mine anytime soon.
>
> I received a basic Rolex watch for 33 years service to my company.
> Sold it and put the money into the TenTec RX-340. It’s my retirement
> gift…so it stays with me….
>
> My Citizen Eco-Drive keeps better time.
>
> Cecil
>
> Sent from my iPad
>
>> On Oct 24, 2022, at 9:27 PM, Joseph Pistritto <jcp at pistritto.org> wrote:
>>
>>
>> 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
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>> <premium-rx-bounces at mailman.qth.net> on behalf of Cecil acuff via
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>> 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?
>> >>>
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>> >>>
>> >>>
>> >>> 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
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>> >>> Subject: [Premium-Rx] Latest Firmware For TT RX340?
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>> >>> What is the latest version??
>> >>>
>> >>> Thx/Ed
>> >>>
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