Another plus for TenTec is that do trade ins on their own equipment. I
was very pleased with the trade in I received to upgrade my Pegasus to
a Jupiter.

On Tue, 30 May 2006 05:00:02 +0000 (UTC), (Geoffrey
S. Mendelson) wrote:

wrote:
My main rig is a Kenwood TS-850S. I am considering getting a back up
rig for it.

Main interest is cw. Internal Antenna Tuner is nice. Bands higher
than 10m not that important.

What models do you recommend that: represent good value, reliable, can
still be serviced (if used)?

Try a Ten-Tec. Many Japanese rigs are designed for SSB, with CW as an
afterthought. Ten-Tec rigs, while they work perfectly well for SSB,
were, and still are, are designed with a CW operator in mind.

Their older rigs can be easily serviced, and they still sell manuals,
parts and fix them for you.

The older ones don't include tuners, but a modern external auto tuner will
work with them.

Geoff.
John Ferrell W8CCW