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This receiver is a
Ten-Tec RX-350 manufactured here in the good ole USA by Ten-Tec in Sevierville,
Tennessee. Ten-Tec corporate name is derived from Tennessee Technology
and is a manufacturer of outstanding shortwave and amateur equipment. In
fact, Ten-Tec's reputation for its manufactured products is outstanding....this
RX-350 being one such achievement.
Ten-Tec produced these
receivers for about 3 years from 2002 thru late 2004 selling for $1199 without
any options. If purchased in today's depreciated dollars, the cost would
be $2,193 in December of 2025. With regards to cosmetics, this unit is in good overall condition. You will see a few marks on the unit as a result of age and operation, but the unit has a nice appearance. Please look at our pictures for specific
cosmetic condition.
The RX-350 has been
fully tested and works beautifully as designed by the Ten-Tec folks. The
sensitivity and operation is just fantastic. In fact, we have sold
several of these receivers on Ebay over the years and the more time we spend
with them, the more we have come to love the operation and features. This
is a fairly scarce receiver and it is infrequently offered for sale here on
Ebay. We do not think that this was a high production receiver and we
uncommonly have one of these to offer for sale.
We also want to point
out that this unit has the more desired later version 1.15 firmware installed (see
picture of display on the boot up screen).
The RX-350 comes with the AC cord and also including the following items:
While this RX-350 does
not offer all the features as found on the Ten-Tec RX*340 and is not a mil-spec
designed unit, it is a very nice DSP unit and one that we call the "budget
RX*340". Again, we are not stating that the specs match the RX*340,
but we are comparing the variety of DSP functions such as filters, noise
control, and such things that enable this receiver to rise above the average
and typical HF receiver.
The RX-350 was
considered a mid-priced DSP receiver which was remarkable considering that most
DSP receivers during that time leaned toward the 2K and above range. It
is no longer being manufactured and is only available used on such selling
forums as Ebay. In the advertising literature, Ten-Tec described the
RX-350 as a "full-fledged mid-price HF DSP receiver designed for today's
demanding shortwave listener".
Operating this 350 is
an absolute delight. In fact, the performance of this model
continues to astound us and we have handled a lot of high end receivers
over the years. While the DSP is used in a variety of functions such as auto-notch
filtering and noise reduction, the thing that most pleases us is the DSP
in the IF filter system. Most receivers come with a bandwidth or two and
offer additional bandwidth filters for extra money that can sometimes add
significantly to the purchase price. However, the 350 uses one rotating
knob to select any of 34 filter bandwidths between 300 Hz and 8 KHz.
During use, we would normally band scan on the 350 using a medium filter of
around 4 or 5 KHz. Upon hearing a station, we would either widen the
bandwidth to improve fidelity or narrow it to cut down on side channel
interference. Since rotating the knob easily varies the bandwidth, the
user has fantastic control of the bandwidth that is no harder to operate than
the receiver's volume control.
There are some
additional outstanding features of the RX-350. One of these is the
obviously oversize LCD display. Users will notice large frequency numbers
on the readout and a good contrast to the screen allowing for great viewing
from a variety of angles and lighting conditions. Also, found on this
display is a full time time/date clock that is second to none and a sweep
spectrum graph that runs along the bottom of the receiver and allows the
operator to see band activity above and below the the signal currently being
heard. The operator can choose any one of 8 sweep ranges for the graph.
If you have ever seen one of these spectrum graphs, you will appreciate
how such a device will help you locate signals up and down the band to assist with the tuning of transmitted frequencies.
If you like to store
your frequencies in memory, you will be thrilled with the RX-350. The
receiver contains 8 separate banks of 128 memories for a total of 1024
memories. All of the memories can be alpha tagged with up to 16
characters and instantly recalled. Such comprehensive memory facilities
exceeds many scanning receivers and this gives the user additional flexibility
when storing and tuning into amateur nets, favorite stations, or
"watched" frequencies such as military channels or pirate station
frequencies.
The RX-350 has a sync
detector, and while it works okay, the sync sometimes will lose
lock during deep signal fades. Actually, we found that this receiver is best used with ECSS and we have included an informational sheet to inform you how to use it with tuning signals.
Using exalted carrier selectable sideband, the receiver is very stable and you
can listen to programs using either upper or lower sideband without any
distortion. Since the receiver operates so well using this mode and with
the addition of the wealth of bandwidths, you can really avoid any side channel
interference that comes your way and minimize the distortion from signal
fading. In our opinion, this is a powerful set of features for this
receiver that is not common on other receivers.
This receiver has a
variety of other features that is probably best for us to list. The
manual to use this receiver is well written and goes over most of these
features in good detail:
In operation during
testing, we connected the receiver to our favorite speaker....a Sounds
Sweet. The audio output of the internal receiver speaker is as good or better than
most communications receivers, but cannot be compared to what can be heard with
an external speaker. Using the Sounds Sweet speaker, we were able to tune
into several stations and then tuned to listen to outstanding regional music
heard on the Voice of Turkey. It is obvious that the engineers at Ten-Tec did
not shortchange the audio amp and users of this receiver will experience great
sound from this DSP receiver when connected to an external speaker.
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