In 1901 Guglielmo Marconi received the worlds first trans-Atlantic transmission. In the century since that historic moment, Amateur Radio has blossomed alongside technologies that have given us satellites, personal computers, cell phones and instant text messaging. Sometimes we, the Amateur community, lead the technology, sometimes we follow. And with each new advancement we endeavor to push the envelope a little further than we did before.

Advancements in design, technology, features, size, weight and capabilities can hide a simple fact....being an Amateur Radio operator is about getting on the air and experiencing the world as only we, as radio operators, can truly appreciate. It is also a simple fact that from our activities we are able to gain insight into what is important in radio design, what we can do with the technology and what we see coming around the corner.

Ten-Tec would like you to participate in the design of a future radio transceiver. Tell us what you like or dislike, what you want and what you don't.

As an incentive, we are offering 10 $25 Visa gift cards to be given out at random July 1 from a drawing of all hams that complete both surveys for us.

The best in Amateur Radio is now even better with ORION II. Featuring a color screen, all-new suite of roofing filters, new control processor and more. Highest performance HF transceiver available today, analog + IF-DSP, dual 32-bit ADI SHARC processors, lowest composite TX phase noise of any rig available -- sounds fantastic on transmit and receive! Optimized amateur bands transceiver plus general coverage sub-receiver.

OMNI-VII is the first truly Net-Ready ham transceiver. No PC required at the rig to operate remote! Locate your OMNI-VII anywhere you have wideband Internet access. Simply connect its built-in Ethernet port to your router with our exclusive One Plug connection. Delivers live receive AND transmit operation from anywhere else in the world from another wideband Internet access! A simple GUI (Graphical User Interface) written for the OMNI-VII will be available for download at no charge from our firmware update website. That’s not all: the latest GUI source code (written in Visual Basic) and complete programming instructions can be downloaded to build your own GUI.

THE RETURN OF A LEGEND: The ARGONAUT V IF-DSP HF 20 watt transceiver. Ten-Tec's reputation for quiet, dynamic receiver performance continues with the little gem of an HF rig. AM, FM, CW, SSB operation on 10-160 meters, general coverage from 500 kHz to 30 MHz on receive. PSK31 ready - plug it into your sound card without any dropping resistors in the TX line or a rig-to-computer interface and you're ready to operate. 35 built-in receive filters. Like all of our transceivers, ARGONAUT V is a software-defined radio and instant updates can be downloaded from the Internet - always have the latest version of the rig! Now featuring the high-stability TCXO as standard equipment on all ARGONAUT V's.