Ten Tec 506 and Arduino

[Mike O'Dell]

Oh I see - we're talking about two different things.
I saw The New Oooooh Shiny! and was blinded by the price.

I did read down and looked at the TT506 blurb.
Seems like a cheeze-ball $1 LCD display would have
been an immensely useful addition. Although I
admit that at $199, if you consider it a pre-assembled
prototyping kit, it's probably cost-effective for
hackery purposes. Add an Ethernet shield and
make it a PSK31 or JoeTaylor-mode server/beacon.

Maybe Ten-Tec has seen the light-

     Open your Hymnals to Page "42" and let us sing "Eat or Be Eaten!"

That would certainly get the TT logo in front of a
lot of people who would likely not see it any time soon.

So kudos to them for whatever reason - enlightment
or sheer terror. They did *A Good Thing*.

     -mo



On 5/18/13 2:42 PM, wb4jfi at knology.net wrote:
> Mike, where did you see the price?  I looked on the Ten-Tec web site 
> last night, and could not find it.  After a Google search, I found one 
> mention of $199.  That's not too far out of line for a production 
> radio from a real company, although this rig is quite limited out of 
> the box.  Compared to a Softrock, the Rebel could be of interest to 
> beginners, for example.  I'm kind of surprised that Ten-Tec was the 
> company to come up with this.  They have been dinged in the past for 
> not providing software/code and other info for some of their other 
> radios.