Terry,
You are the second person to report no external
speaker jack. Is there not a way to run the audio
into your computer's sound card?
--- Terry Gaiser <w6ru@lightspeed.net> wrote:
> I am surprised that so little has been posted to the
> ref regarding this new radio. Because of that I will
> give my 2 cents worth...
>
> When the radio arrived nearly 2 weeks ago I was NOT
> going to even look at the manual but TenTec had a
> one sheet tucked inside the cover of the manual
> warning you to NOT do ANYTHING before you read pages
> vii through page 4 first. So I read those pages
> which were to familiarize yourself with the hookup
> and loading of the software. I DID NOT read any
> further ... I wanted to see how good this radio &
> software were for intuitive use. I found it not
> necessary to refer to the manual any further.
>
> The receiver in this radio is GREAT !!! One of the
> best sounding radios I have had in my shack. I
> really like and use a lot the passband tuning
> control for a tone control of the received audio.
> Selectivity looks good. The AM broadcast stations I
> like sound very HIFI also.
>
> Wanting a strictly "computer" controlled radio I did
> not opt for the tuning control. I find it very
> natural to use the mouse to tune the radio ... until
> I tried to work split. When split and wanting to
> check the XMIT frequency and holding down the REV
> button to hear the XMIT frequency I found myself not
> being able to adjust the XMIT freq. A phone call to
> Scott at TenTec and I found out that the up/down
> keyboard buttons will adjust the tuning. SLICK ! I
> then tried the left/right arrows and found that
> those adjust the tuning step size.
>
> After some QSO's on 75 and 40 in which I got great
> reports I went to 20 meters and got a distorted
> audio report from a friend who has a good ear. To
> make a short story shorter, my radio was overnighted
> to TenTec last week for a regulator repair and they
> OVERNIGHTED it back to me ! What nice treatment. The
> radio is working fine now on all bands. I have not
> used it on CW as yet.
>
> Now for a couple negatives ... NO external speaker
> connection AND you cannot use the spare jack on the
> back of the radio. For whatever reason (schematics
> not available yet) both speaker leads have to be
> floating above chassis ground ! I ran a pigtail
> through a slot in the bottom of the radio for my RCA
> 12 inch monitor speaker ... what great sound.
>
> I have a small gripe that I am sure will be taken
> care of in software revisions .... when switching
> back to a vfo from a memory the filter selection
> stays on the filter selected by the memory and does
> not go back to the previously used filter by the
> VFO. When changing bands the mode is not remembered
> ... from 75 meters LSB I select 20 meters and the
> radio stays in LSB. For now I use VFO A for 75 & 40
> and VFO B on 20 cause it does remember mode from one
> VFO to the other.
>
> I think TenTec has come up with a very progressive
> product that has been released with fewer bugs than
> I expected.
>
> Terry W6RU
>
===
-Bob Wooldridge KC0DXF
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