On Jun 17, 2011, at 7:51 AM, Darrell Bellerive wrote:
In the 70's Ten-Tec had the Tritons, and early Omni's, with the
Corsairs
in the early 80's.
Before the Corsairs, with the Tritons, Argos, early OMNIs and Century
(21,22, 22 digital display) rigs Ten-Tec went for simplicity of design
and good sound.
Compared to the design of the Colins (sophistocated and no expense
spared), the Drake (near genius), the Ten-Tec rigs look like they were
designed by copying pages from Doug DeMaw's books.
I am NOT saying that the Ten-Tec rigs are poor performers, far from
it. For casual rag chewing, I'd put my Argo 509 or Trition IV Digital
(display, not oscillator) against any modern rig.
In the Drake rigs I've seen every part is carefully placed, every wire
carefully run, every joint carefully soldered. My SPR-4 manual warns
against changing the length or route of wires as it may affect
performance.
I don't know if it would affect the Ten-Tec rigs in the same way, but
it does not seem so. The designs seem to be simple circuits. The
Century rigs have direct coversion receivers.
Geoff.
--
Geoffrey S. Mendelson, N3OWJ/4X1GM
Making your enemy reliant on software you support is the best revenge.
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