Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2005/03/03
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]> > I inherited a couple of TenTec rigs from my Dad (as well as his call W9PSP) I think Ray Cohn of Raytheon started Ten Tec? Dad knew him as well as Phil Halligan and Collins. > Yes, Ray Cohn started TenTec with some of the surplus funds yielded from the sale of Raytheon back in the 60s-70s ?? I don't know when. He built a large and very expensive house up on a knob in Gatlinburg and lived there for a while. He moved back to Michigan (I think) and left the house as a vacation home which he never visited. It recently was cleaned up and put on the market for sale and I went, out of curiosity, to tour it. It is still a ham's dream home with one of the biggest rotating towers I've ever seen. It still has what looks like two stacked tribanders and several other monoband yagis on at least a 100' self supporting, rotating tower. That tower probably cost more than my house! JB PS- I think the old man's still alive and in his late 80's or early 90's. JB