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"mike maghakian" wrote:

The famous Dave Z who is one of the writers of receiver reviews for Passport
and his own website has some pretty bad things to say about the 340.
I had my 340 expert comment on this and here is what he said:
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He criticizes the "sloppy" use of loose wires vs. ribbon wiring being used
on an RX-325 which was a cheap, fair performer in his review of the RX-340
and finds similarities. At first it seems like a valid thing to note. But
if you read his entire web presentation you'll discover the reason for this.
Ten Tec claims that ribbon wiring can interact from within and cause
unwanted spurs/hash on a given circuit board signal path. Dedicated wires,
however sloppy in appearance, causes less degrading of the signbal from
spurs/hash, according to Ten Tec.

He states that the synch is worthless. See my previous email for my
experience with the synch. I don't know WHY he says this!! Even that
R-75-loving Phil says the synch is fair, not worthless. My guess is that
when Dave has used a 340, he never bothered to read the manual thoroughly to
learn how to use it properly!!!!!!

I use the sync all the time. Works great. Whoever Dave Zantow is he
needs a reality check.

I have been inside the radio a few times once to replace the S meter
bulb and once to fix the cracked solder connections on the power supply
PCB at the output connector. I think someone got carried away pushing on
the connector during installation and cracked the solder. There is
wiring lose inside the radio that in a military specified radio would be
tied up better to meet things like vibration but this radio is not meant
for those conditions. The wiring is no better or worse than most
commercial radios. I don't see anything wrong with the radios
construction and in fact I think it's pretty good.

I consider myself "an expert" because I have owned this radio for years,
been in the hobby for years and have years of experience in electronics.
I don't need someone to tell me about the radios performance and have
found that people misunderstand specifications, or do not know how to
operate equipment, or misconstrue observations, or just make mistakes.

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Telamon
Ventura, California