D Peter Maus wrote:
bpnjensen wrote:
The only downside I've encountered is the audio through the internal
speaker. Using an external, it's very good.

Performance is quite good. Use is intuitive. Between AR-7030+ and
RX-350, the rest of my arsenal gets used sporadically.

Peter, the information commonly encountered on this radio is that (1)
it suffers quite a bit from intermod products, and (2) TenTec does
not give it the software upgrade support it originally promised. Have you
found this to be true?


I've found no greater number of birdies, or intermod products with
this rig than I have with any other. It's actually pretty quiet. And
on my antenna system, devoid of overload. Despite the 5kw regional a
couple of miles from here, I have encountered no reception problems
caused by cross modulation, intermod, or overload.

I haven't seen any firmware updates since 2002. But, then, I've not
found any reason for them, either.


I use it every day, alongside AR-7030+ and have not found it
lacking.
I understand that there are those who don't care for it. Then,
again, there are many who don't care for the AR-7030 series, either.

There are some reasons for firmware upgrades and Ten-Tec admits to that
much. For instance, the timer doesn't work as advertised, the FAST AGC
setting 'pops' badly and you have to select a 3000 Hz bandwidth in AM
because the system always displays the half width, so 3000 Hz is really
6000Hz, 6000 hz is really 12 Khz and 8000 Hz is really 16 KHz! Get it? Me
neither. That said, the receiver works very well and has built-in noise
reduction and auto notch filters. I use mine alot!

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