Ten-Tec RX-320 and RX-321 LW/HF receiver radio technical notes

TenTec RX-320 and RX-321 HF serial port controlled receivers.

I own a Ten-Tec model RX-321 (a.k.a Globe Wireless) serial controlled HF receiver. S/N # 03C10930. Purchased in 2007.

Manuals and guides

• File:Ten-Tec RX-320 programmers guide.pdf
• File:Ten-Tec RX-321 user.pdf

Notes

• http://rx321.blacktailbooks.com/
• http://www.tentecwiki.org/doku.php?id=rx-321
• http://www.tentecwiki.org/webarchive/rx320/
• http://swling.com/blog/2009/11/the-ten-tec-rx-320d-a-little-black-box-with-big-punch/
• http://www.eham.net/reviews/detail/1341
• http://www.eham.net/reviews/detail/4999
• http://swlchris.tripod.com/rx320.html
• http://www.roveroresearch.info/home/amateur-radio/black-box-radios/ten-tex-rx320

Software

• rx320 command line control. A fork of rx320 originally written by A. Maitland Bottoms <bottoms@debian.org> (https://people.debian.org/~bottoms/) aa4hs@amrad.org a member of AMRAD from 2001. I can no longer find this code online any where. The last version when I forked it was 1.0-1. I am starting with 1.1. Source available at https://github.com/KevinPInscoe/rx320-cli
• I have a modified version of Hector Peraza's rx320 program: http://www.tux.org/~bball/rx320/index.html (2017-03-28 link dead) See page Hector Peraza's rx320 program for Linux. I use this most of all from my Linux workstation.
• Clifton Turner's RX320 and DB320 Programs - I had to mirror of this all of the original pages have all disappeared. See Clifton Turner's RX320 and DB320 Programs.
• RxPlus - http://teledata.qc.ca/RxPlus/index.php
• scan320 - Now seems abandoned at http://www.mindspring.com/~tom2000/. You can download here at File:Scan320-V1r1.zip.
• tt320 - https://groups.yahoo.com/neo/groups/TT320/info
• Dxtra rx0320D and DREAM bundle - http://www.dxtra.com/rx320.html
• GNRX320 - http://www.boatanchors.de/software/gnrx320.html
• TRX-Manager - http://www.trx-manager.com/
• More modern - http://www.n4py.com supports the RX-320
• TenTec's own software for Windows (see below)

TenTec originally supplied software and downloads

As appeared on http://radio.tentec.com/downloads/receivers/RX320D (now defunct I believe) in 2008.

• Programmers Reference Manual - File:RX320PRG.zip - 183.54KB - 2008-08-29
• RX-320D schematic and parts list - File:RX320TEC.zip - 175.45KB - 2008-08-29
• Service directive to maximize DRM reception on RX320D - File:Sd320-01.pdf - 3.45KB - 2008-08-29
• GUI V1.31 - Windows 95 - File:Setup131.exe - 688.79KB - 2005-01-26
• GUI V2.04 - Windows 98x/ME/2000/XP - File:Setup204.exe - 620.59KB - 2005-01-26

Mods

• http://www.g7ltt.com/drm/rx320mods/
• http://www.tentecwiki.org/lib/exe/fetch.php?media=rx320lfmod.pdf (mirrored File:Rx320lfmod.pdf).

Streams

I occasionally stream the output of the RX-321 to this site: https://kevininscoe.com/rx321/

There is also an online RX-320 at http://www.remotehams.com/orb.html?id=7108