>From K2ZJ <JVCARIOTI@c5vr.syr.ge.com> Mon Oct 24 12:19:32 1994
From: K2ZJ <JVCARIOTI@c5vr.syr.ge.com> (K2ZJ)
Subject: TS930 problem
Message-ID: <941024071932.2da05d2e@c5vr.syr.ge.com>
>From vore@leeca0.leeca.ohio.gov (Dave Vore - Educational Liaison) Mon Oct 24
>14:32:22 1994
From: vore@leeca0.leeca.ohio.gov (Dave Vore - Educational Liaison) (Dave Vore -
Educational Liaison)
Subject: ic-765 receiver problem
>From fish@crl.com (Bill Fisher, KM9P Concentric Systems, Inc.) Mon Oct 24
>16:33:43 1994
From: fish@crl.com (Bill Fisher, KM9P Concentric Systems, Inc.) (Bill Fisher,
KM9P Concentric Systems, Inc.)
Subject: VE's below 3750
Message-ID: <199410241533.AA21528@mail.crl.com>
>From Scott J Bauer" <sjb@rfc.comm.harris.com Mon Oct 24 16:34:39 1994
From: Scott J Bauer" <sjb@rfc.comm.harris.com (Scott J Bauer)
Subject: ARRL DX
Message-ID: <199410241534.LAA22610@usc02.rfc.comm.harris.com>
>From fish@crl.com (Bill Fisher, KM9P Concentric Systems, Inc.) Mon Oct 24
>17:44:00 1994
From: fish@crl.com (Bill Fisher, KM9P Concentric Systems, Inc.) (Bill Fisher,
KM9P Concentric Systems, Inc.)
Subject: Force-12 80m dipole
Message-ID: <199410241644.AA01837@mail.crl.com>
>From Victor Burns-KI6IM <vburns@netcom.com> Mon Oct 24 19:01:15 1994
From: Victor Burns-KI6IM <vburns@netcom.com> (Victor Burns-KI6IM)
Subject: V31DX-Cuba Libre Contest Club
Message-ID: <Pine.3.89.9410241052.A27887-0100000@netcom14>
As a solute to the national drink, Rum and Coke with a lime (Cuba Libre)
V31DX will certianly be operating CQWW SSB a little more lax than usual:
we lost a tower, so if we sound a little out of control it's because we
are. As it was once said by an friend, "you guys don't contest like
gentlemen", to which we reply "real gentlement don't contest!"
Feel free to check into the V31DX Cuba Libre Contest Club any time over
the weekend; the more the merrier. The beers will be cold and rum
strong. I kinda wish it was gonna be a babefest like K9FOX but the babes
are few and far between in Belize but this is high season so who knows?
maybe i'll have to compare notes.
Look for us Maritime Mobile form 42,000 ft to and fro and around the
Carribean.
For anyone who cares QSL Via AA6BB.
73, Victor, John and Peter
The V31DX Cubra Libre Contest Club.
>From Jim Reisert AD1C 24-Oct-1994 1551 <reisert@wrksys.enet.dec.com> Mon Oct
>24 20:47:12 1994
From: Jim Reisert AD1C 24-Oct-1994 1551 <reisert@wrksys.enet.dec.com> (Jim
Reisert AD1C 24-Oct-1994 1551)
Subject: 1994 ARRL DX Plaques are in the mail
Message-ID: <9410241947.AA03250@us1rmc.bb.dec.com>
1994 ARRL DX test plaques arrived Friday, October 21.
- Jim AD1C
reisert@eng.pko.dec.com
>From k2mm@MasPar.COM (John Zapisek) Mon Oct 24 21:08:14 1994
From: k2mm@MasPar.COM (John Zapisek) (John Zapisek)
Subject: TS-850 Failure Summary
Message-ID: <9410242008.AA02667@greylock.local>
Late last June I solicited comments about the TS-850's reliability.
> [K2MM] I've used three TS-850's at multi-op efforts in the past year.
> Two of them have crapped out during the contest. Not a good track record.
>
> Anybody else have similar or opposite experience with TS-850's? Three
> is not a very big sample size; it could just be a fluke.
Well . . .
Tree/N6TR has an 850 that somehow survived my visit to his place last July.
This puzzled me greatly and gave me pause about summarizing the responses.
But Tree must not have wiped all of my fingerprints off the rig, because it
bit the dust just a few days ago. With this mystery cleared up, I feel I
can now post a summary of the responses I got:
Number of times rig Number of
has crapped out responses
0 9
1 4
2 2
Some responses spoke to the rig's features but did not explicitly say that
the rig had or had not failed. I've included these in the "no failure"
category.
Tree's radio failed in a manner very similar to one of my experiences --
the radio lost power on the high bands . . . nil out on 10m, half power on
15m, and down some on 20m. Turned out to be a decoder chip that controlled
the band-filter relays according to the four-bit band code. Not hard to
replace, I gather.
Thanks to all the following for the feedback: Dave/VE2ZP/VE9CB, Bruce/AA5B,
Len/WF2V, Rich/K2WR, Scott/VE6CGY/VE6KTT/VE6MD, OldTree/N6TR, Bill/K6KM,
Jay/K0GU, John/WB2EKK, Tom/K1KI, Paul/KB5MU, and Ken/K0PP. 73. --John/K2MM
>From barry@w2up.wells.com (Barry Kutner) Mon Oct 24 20:34:32 1994
From: barry@w2up.wells.com (Barry Kutner) (Barry Kutner)
Subject: TIC rotor working (finally)
Message-ID: <0RqPuc4w165w@w2up.wells.com>
To keep a long story short....
Was having trouble with TIC ringrotor where the ring gear wouldn't stay
meshed with the motor pinion gear as it rotated. Turned out to be two
problems:
1. On my TH7 had the boom/mast plate rotated so that it was parallel with
the ground, to fit within the cradle. As it turns out, with a Rohn 45,
the plate barely clears/contacts the tower leg(s) as it rotates. SOlution
was mounting it off center about 8 inches.
2. BIG problem was the holes in the frame assembly were not centered in
the frame. Measured about 1/4 inch off center. After flipping it over
(requiring some interesting tower acrobatics leaving the ring and antenna
attached!) everything was fine.
BTW, Todd now says the new rings (with bigger pinion gear and deeper
teeth) will ship this week.
Thanks for all the advice. 73 Barry
--
Barry N. Kutner, W2UP Usenet/Internet: barry@w2up.wells.com
Newtown, PA Packet Radio: W2UP @ WB3JOE.#EPA.PA.USA.NA
Packet Cluster: W2UP >K2TW (FRC)
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