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Review Summary For : Ten-Tec RX-340
Reviews: 21MSRP: 3950
Description:
DSP HF Receiver
Product is in production
More Info: http://www.tentec.com/rx340.htm
# last 180 days Avg. Rating last 180 days Total reviews Avg. overall rating
00214.9
WHFITE Rating: 2003-11-23
As good as it gets Time Owned: more than 12 months.
It took over a year of scrimping and saving as well as untold squabbles with the War Department to buy this receiver. It replaced a Drake R8B which, up to that time, was my choice for the best all-round HF receiver currently in production.

It is better. Lots better.

Admittedly, this is more receiver than most people want or need. It requires a substantial investment in an antenna system if you want to realize its full potential. If you're just going to hang a piece of wire on the arse of this machine, save your money. But given a really fine, well installed antenna, it exceeds the capacity of all but those receivers that the DOD and spy agencies won't let us buy.

It also requires a substantial commitment to learning and practice. Although its performance right out of the box will astound you, tweaking and peaking adds much more. But you'll have to spend hours (not an hour or so...HOURS) with the manual and on the headphones to really learn to extract all its capability. Facility in making fine adjustments "in real time" takes lots of practice.

It does sound digital. Some people say that is a downside but I suspect that is what the sound is really like and our older analog gear has just been filing the edges off of it. I point that out because somebody with a 390 is doubtless going to write and say that their Collins works just as well and sounds soooooooooo much better.

It doesn't. Been there, done that.

I hate reviews in which reviews make all sorts of superlative claims in a ponderous "if you don't agree you must be an idiot" tone and I'm afraid I'm beginning to sound like that here.

So go listen for yourself. It really is the very best HF receiver you can buy anywhere in the world, at any price.