In article . com,
"Somebody Somewhere" wrote:

Telamon wrote:

In article ,
"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: ***************************

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.


First of all, let me say that it's pointless to fight a "my favorite
radio is better than your favorite radio" war.

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I don't fight the "my favorite radio is better than your favorite radio
war" because it is pointless.

I do correct misstated material facts about radios posted about on the
news group. I don't feel the need to correct peoples opinions because
that is their thinking but I do follow up on posts that for instance
misconstrue specifications or are outright misconceptions about
performance of a radio.

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Telamon
Ventura, California