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[H2] Ten Tec Phoenix Club
The Phoenix club is intended to garner support for the relocation of Ten Tec to the new Dishtronix factory in Dayton, Ohio.
The Ten Tec Model 594 Phoenix is an all new from the ground up dual direct digital down conversion (DDC) software defined radio (SDR) sporting a number of innovative and unique at this time features. It costs a tremendous amount of money to secure critical parts for such a machine. For example there is, per unit costs of $125 in each of two ADCs, $75 in each of two FPGAs, $100 in the DSP, $100 in the display which tallies over $600 per unit already, not including circuit boards, coils, capacitors, resistors, other semiconductors, switches, inductors, finals, heatsinks, connectors, buttons, knobs, controls and sheet metal parts, not to mention packaging, labor, royalties, or overhead. We are asking prospective customers to commit a $500 dollar deposit to buy the radio by joining the Phoenix club. This commitment is not because the company is insolvent. It is frankly to protect me, Mike Dishop, N8WFF, the owner of Ten Tec from you changing your mind. What do I mean? Many companies take deposits for new products. Alpha has always taken a deposit when ordering an amp. I have taken checks but never cashed them before. What I’ve found is that sometimes customers back out if I have not cashed the checks and I’m left holding the bag for the expensive parts I’ve bought until another order comes in. The Phoenix is a big investment in parts, nearly the biggest I’ve ever made. By taking the deposit on a non cancellable order basis I’m assured you will write me the check I need to cover this investment. The $3750 introductory price doesn’t have a lot of margin and we really need to sell every one of them quickly at that price.
So what do you get with your Phoenix club membership?
A $500 gift certificate / merchandise credit to be used as a deposit on your new Phoenix transceiver Model 594, or redeemable for other merchandise from Ten Tec, Alpha or Dishtronix.
Shipping in the lower 48 states at no charge
A nice membership certificate thanking you for being instrumental in the relaunch of Ten Tec in the new Dayton facility
Your name and call on a Phoenix Club plaque to be displayed inside the Ten Tec lobby thanking you for your participation in the relaunch of Ten Tec in Dayton
Guaranteed pricing and delivery of one of the first 100 Model 594 transceivers.
Mike’s personal gratitude for supporting our dream of continuing Ten Tec’s legacy.
Occasionally a news letter email regarding progress of things here in Dayton.
Whatever other nice things I (Mike) can think of to do in the future like preferential pricing on new orders, or first dibs on new products, etc.
In making the Phoenix club we at Ten Tec want to foster a more personal relationship with you and share more visibility with you of what we are doing, and give you an opportunity to have more input at Ten Tec. We are offering you an exciting opportunity to be a part of not just a new radio but a new company essentially and an opportunity to network with other Phoenix club enthusiasts.
By selling membership in a club we avoid several complications and possible entanglements in the process. As we expect prices to rise and lead times to extend, you may want to even consider buying two or more radio/ memberships and to sell one at a profit once you have them. A question was asked what will happen if we don’t get 100 memberships sold. We will simply order
enough material for what we have orders for when the cut off date comes. When will you receive your new radio? We intend to begin manufacturing and shipping in the 4th quarter of 2025. Like all things this could change due to circumstances beyond our control. If we have the parts and labor we will ship radios! Please be patient. We will do everything we can to fulfill the orders as fast as we possibly can. Some people have expressed concern about the deposit if the radio does not happen. First this radio IS happening short of the death of Mike or Konstantine. If radios are unable to be shipped within one year of advertised delivery you may request a refund of your deposit and cancel you Phoenix Club membership.
November Update:  This date is officially changed to the end of first quarter /  start of second quarter, and definitely before Hamvention.  This radio has drastically changed since it was announced and shown because of many suggestions, requests and demands from the Phoenix User’s Group on the groups.io webpage.  This has been done with the consensus of the majority of the Phoenix Club members who have placed deposits.  It has necessitated an almost complete redesign of the many PCBs inside.  It has also driven the cost up substantially, but Phoenix Club members retain their guaranteed price.  Why would I do this?  Some people have the misconception that I don’t care about what you, the CUSTOMER thinks, and that is absolutely not true. We at Ten Tec want to make the radio that YOU, the customer who actually buys Ten Tec radios wants.  I want to dispel that notion because I built all this for YOU, the true radio aficionado. I want to bring you the best technology and the best radio at the best possible price. So the Phoenix now has become the first radio of it’s kind –  designed and built with the direct input of the people who pay the bills –  YOU who buy the radio.
It also gives us a little more time to get the targeted number of members.  If you are on the fence you are encouraged to get your preferred pricing and assured delivery NOW while you can.  The introductory price was 4350 but because of all the additions the price will be rising after the radios are in production.  Joining the Phoenix club is a one time opportunity. You can still get in at 3750 and free shipping in CONUS.  This promotional price is roughly 60 percent of the US competition and it is built completely in our own factory in Dayton, the heart of ham radio in the USA. Your money stays here and supports other hams. I reinvest 100% of the profits into ham radio.  The Phoenix is allowing us to buy an entry level laser and bending brake which then allows us to make metal in house, especially prototypes and stencils for our stencil printer for solder paste,  which opens the door for us to start making other products that we currently have shelved like the 238C tuner.  The only way I can make radios here in the US is if YOU care enough to get behind me and push.
Get news as it is released here: https://groups.io/g/TentecPHOENIX
How to join:
Please contact sales@tentec.com with your name, call, email address, telephone, and shipping address.
After receiving an acknowledgement, print a copy and mail with your deposit check to:
Dishtronix Inc. / Ten Tec Company
PO BOX 24222
Huber Heights, OH 45424
That’s it – you are in!
[H2] MODEL 594 PHOENIX – coming soon
PRELIMINARY SPECIFICATION
SUBJECT TO CHANGE WITHOUT NOTICE
GENERAL:
GENERAL COVERAGE: 300 KHZ-55 MHz, Specifications guaranteed in Amateur bands.
SUPPLY VOLTAGE: 13.8V ± 15%
FREQUENCY ACCURACY: ± 5 Hz @25 C
FREQUENCY STABILITY: ± 0.5 PPM over operating temperature range
DIMENSIONS (HWD): 4.14 x 9.06 x TBD inch, 105 x 230 x TBD mm, (excluding connectors)
FRONT CONNECTORS: Headphones, Mic: 1/8th inch stereo plug 2 x USB2
REAR CONNECTORS: RF: 2 x SO-239. Accessory Connector, Band Data Connector, Power Connector. HDMI connector, USB3 connector, Predistortion input
RECEIVER:
SINGLE ADC: Two receivers in same band (Main and Sub)
(with SECOND ADC option) Two receivers in any band
MDS (Preamp off / on): -117 dBm / -134 dBm, ± 3 dBm typical
ADC OVERLOAD POINT: +4 dBm without attenuation.
BLOCKING IMD (Preamp off/ on): 120 / 121 dBm typical
RECEIVE CURRENT: < 2A
TRANSMITTER:
POWER: 5-100W ± 1dB
DUTY CYCLE: Continuous SSB/CW, 50% AM, FM, PSK/digital
TX BW: 300 Hz-6KHz, adjustable
FM DEVIATION: ± 5KHz
HARMONIC & SPURIOUS EMISSION:
1-30 MHz: < -50 dBc @ 100W
30-55 MHz: -60 dB @ 5-100W, -43 dBc < 5W
THIRD ORDER IMD: -60 dB below PEP, minimum
ADAPTIVE PREDISTORTION: Internal, and sample port from external amplifier
TX / RX RECOVERY TIME: < 20 ms
RISE AND FALL TIME: 5 ms
CW OFFSET: adjustable
CW KEYER SPEED: 5-50 WPM, Adjustable weighting/
CW KEYER: Curtis Mode B, USB Keyboard
CW MEMORIES: 10
TRANSMIT CURRENT DRAIN: 20A Typical
ANTENNA TUNER:
TYPE: Reversible L network
MATCHING FREQUENCY RANGE: 160-10m, no 6m.
MATCHING RANGE 10:1 SWR typical
REMOTE CONTROL:
Full Remote Station Control using Client/ Server architecture.
Embedded web server with no external software ready to go out of the box.

[H3] A brief history of modern Ten Tec and how the Phoenix came about.
Many of you know Ten Tec was acquired by RF Concepts who liquidated most of Ten Tec’s production assets such as the circuit board assembly equipment as well as the tool and die, machine, plastic injection molding and sheet metal shops. They shifted everything to a complete outsourcing model and ran fire sale and liquidation pricing, squeezing Ten Tec like a big, fat orange until there wasn’t even any pulp left, then declared bankruptcy leaving the remaining assets to RKR which was formed as what appeared to be a debt liquidation company. There were some IP issues which opened a dialog between N8WFF and the owners who indicated they just wanted a way to recover some of their money and had no interest in ham radio business. They were about to auction everything off at Ten Tec because it was too far away to deal with. I loved Ten Tec and believed in Ten Tec so against better judgement I offered to purchase the entire thing as it was. Jan 1 2016 Ten Tec officially became a subsidiary of Dishtronix, Inc. Every radio that could be built from parts had been built and there was no money to buy new parts because creditors would not have anything to do with Ten Tec. Fortunately I had cash to put in to bail out their unfulfilled commercial contracts which enabled me to get Ten Tec back to an operational status. I also started repairing the backlog of radios that had been sitting a couple of years there and got all of them back to their owners. I kept repairing radios usually for a couple of hundred dollars, a loss
when you consider a Tech might work two or three days on some of them, and started supplying parts again, also at a loss, just to support the good will of the Ten Tec customer base. It was OK because I was making money in other areas which I could subsidize the ham radio customers. I managed to get RX340 and RX331 production restarted and had just began with the introduction of the Omni VII+. I had successfully cleaned up the mess that was Ten Tec and had them on stable financial footing. Then COVID hit and the rug was pulled completely out from under us. One of the chip factories burned down and without those chips we were unable to build new radios as we had intended. I was faced with a real dilemma. Completely redesign existing radios with the obstacle of not having the original team, having to used antiquated and poor performing layout software and to rewrite man years of code using obsolete and unsupported development environments which were no longer available – OR – do a new radio.
I procrastinated for a time expecting the parts shortages would solve itself. It did not however. Ham radio is a very small and insignificant, even non existent market as far as chip makers are concerned. For many years we benefited from and built on the chips developed for analog cell phones and analog television. When those industries went digital, the demand for analog mixers and IF chips dried up. Further when televisions and monitors went to LCD the high voltage market of capacitors, etc dried up. The manufacturers saw COVID as an excuse to purge all unprofitable components from their catalog and that is exactly what they did. Not only were the parts we needed not coming back, they are NEVER coming back. Redesign is the only choice left.
I decided rather than to try to reinvent the past to go with something new. During all this transitioning, someone from Europe approached me about a partnership for a new short
wave radio he was developing. I was very impressed but found that he was actually the marketing guy and not the technical guy who actually developed the radio. Those two eventually parted ways and the connection went silent. A year or two later, I don’t exactly remember when, Konstantine, the technical guy, contacted me about a potential partnership on a new kit he had developed. It was very impressive and really a work of art considering one man had done most of it. We had long discussions about what it would take to become a Ten Tec and many technical exchanges under non disclosure, etc. Unfortunately we couldn’t reach an agreement that would work for everyone and we agreed to just disagree on some things and lost touch. I could clearly see that war was coming and that it would be brutal and tried to warn Konstantine to get out, but he dismissed it saying this sort of thing happens all the time. War came and the connection went silent for a long time. Then one day, I received information from my friend telling me he was hiding in the forest outside Kiev, and that the war was far worse than the news media was telling us. Grave yards were overflowing with no one to bury the dead and any man under 65 was being abducted right off the street and pressed into trench warfare at the tip of a gun in his back. He didn’t want all his work to just disappear and said I was the one person he knew who understood and appreciated all that he had done, and was deserving because I was ethical and had not stolen from him, and did I want it for free to carry on, yes or no? I of course accepted but said “Why didn’t you let me know sooner? Maybe I can help..”, He had also sent me a picture of his family and absolutely adorable 5 year old daughter. I made my mind up right then and there that this adorable little child wasn’t going to grow up without a daddy in a hell hole, because you know what happens to children in that situation.
I mobilized every resource I had. Making phone calls to people in places that might help. We planned extraction missions by sea and by air, but how do you extract a 5 year old underwater? In the end he filed some special paperwork and it took a long time to get approved. Maybe some of my calls helped with that. I started a prayer chain too and there were MANY hams praying for that family to be delivered. Eventually he got approval to leave. On the day he got to the border the papers didn’t help. The crossing guards held him up for almost 8 hours and were not going to let him out. Then a miracle happened. The guards started acting like they were drunk and confused and couldn’t understand what was going on. One of those frustrated, dazed and confused guards waved to him and he was across the border family and all! I later told him what had happened, that the power of so m

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