Dear Fellow TenTec Owners,
I am curious about this. I asked my XYL for such a kit for Xmas. When she
called them to order it TenTec told her that they had stopped making the
kits since they thought their performance was too poor!
Anybody have any info on this? I am still in the market for an 80 M QRP
rig.
George H. Collier KC2BIS collier@bellcore.com
Polar Star Sleddog Team EMT-B/Rescue 44 malamute-l owner
*** Long Live the Polar Husky ***
-----Original Message-----
From: Nat Davis [SMTP:ndavis@vt.edu]
Sent: Monday, December 22, 1997 11:28
To: tentec@contesting.com
Subject: [TenTec] TT QRP kits
I built the 40m QRP kit last spring. It is a great kit and worth every
penny of the $100 is costs!
The kit itself oges together well. The instruction manual is very thorough
and simple to follow. Assembly is done in 7 or 8 phases with testing done
after about half of them. As a result, my kit worked the first time!
In terms of actual operations, I did not expect too much performance from
the radio... boy was I wrong! For such an inexpensive radio, the receiver
is pretty darn "hot." The crystal filter network does a decent job at a BW
of something like 1Khz (am doing this from memory so my specs may be
off..).
Transmitter puts out 3-5 watts based on your power supply. The QSK seems
flawless to me -- very very clean.
I took this rig to the NC beach this past summer. While my family was out
getting skin cancer on the beach, I operated into a 40m dipole strung
around
the deck of the house were were staying in. I made contacts all up and
down
the east coast and well into Canada. The universal comment I got was that
I
did not "sound" like a QRP rig! I took that as my best indicator of
transmitting performance!
I love my rig. Hope you decide to buy one and will like yours too.
73,
Nat Davis, N4BTO
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