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[TenTec] Is my Scout sick?

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Subject: [TenTec] Is my Scout sick?
From: N4NT@wireco.net (Michael O. Hyder)
Date: Tue, 2 Nov 1999 23:49:25 -0500
What's your power supply?

Regards,
Mike N4NT@wireco.net
Johnson City, Tennessee

----- Original Message ----- 
From: Brian Murrey <brian@iquest.net>
To: <tentec@contesting.com>
Sent: Tuesday, November 02, 1999 11:32 PM
Subject: [TenTec] Is my Scout sick?


> 
> I'm a QRP guy.  So when I bought my Scout a couple of weeks ago, used
> from TT, the first thing I did was crank it down to the 5 watts
> advertised (I'm actually measuring about 3.8 watts). Works great, I've
> made a lot of CW QRP contacts with it. I've also worked into Canada
> and Mexico on SSB at about 5 watts...just fine.
> 
> So tonight, I hear ZS6IR calling CQ from South Africa on 7055, I try
> and try but he doesn't hear me. So I grab my little plastic alignment
> tool and turn the Scout to what appears to be all the way up (I'm only
> measuring about 22 watts though). So I give a call and WOW...the
> display starts jumping all over the place while I'm xmitting. Numbers
> are whizzing by like a roulette wheel.  I let off the mic and there I
> am...on 7055 like I'm supposed to be.  SWR was 1.2 to 1 into my 40m
> dipole.
> 
> Is this rig supposed to flicker and jump the display when keying down
> in SSB mode??
> 
> Anyone?
> 
> -- 
> =========================================================
>        KB9BVN -NORCAL #2792 FISTS #5695 QRP-L #1540
>         39.558 N   86.095 W   Johnson Co., Indiana
>      GRID: EM69WN - NORCAL 40A - Attic Dipole - 1.5w
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