Make it a full 100w. 50w won't drive many of the current linears to full
power. In fact many need about 120w. (I'm referring to linears for home,
not for mobile). The mobile linear can be 400 to 500w but I'd like to see
it keep this power right up to 3:1 SWR like the transceivers do.
AND one more important point: It must have PBT (the K2 does not, which is
why I don't use my K2 on SSB).
Antennas: Well even though it was suggested we need a highly effecient
antenna, I have found for my type of mobile work where I change bands all
the time, the best solution for me is one which can be band-switched from
the driver's seat. I currently run an old Army Jeep whip (about 11 ft.
long) on the back of my RV with an ICOM AH4 auto-matchbox directly beneath
it. The transceiver and the coax to the matchbox always sees a good match,
regardless of frequency. I have no idea what the effeciency is and how well
it compares to other antennas. It works reasonably well for 20m and above.
It's "OK" on 40 but 80 is pretty useless. When parked I extend the Jeep
whip to about 22 ft. and it really works great on 40m and above.
So I would like to see Ten-Tec offer a mobile tuner that works like the AH4
but with our dream [mobile] machine instead of the ICOM.
If we can get that, I can declare myself a "JA-free radio zone".
73
Rick
-----Original Message-----
From: tentec-bounces@contesting.com
[mailto:tentec-bounces@contesting.com]On Behalf Of ac5e@comcast.net
Sent: Tuesday, August 03, 2004 11:30 AM
To: tentec@contesting.com
Subject: Re: [TenTec]dreaming about a 100 w. mobile rig
I suspect everyone who has ever done any mobiling will have opinions. For my
two kopeks ....
Fifty watts with an AVAILABLE and RELIABLE 200 - 500 watt mobile amp would
be quite reasonable, although a 100 watt rig with no amp would probably win
the low list price derby.
With the exteme scarcity of places moden vehicles provide to mount a rig a
detachable faceplate with a STOCK 25 foot extension cable would also be
good. A decent faceplate mount is extremely desireable. Leave Mickey's
engineering to other marques. It should have sufficent audio to be heard
over the road noise - and an included high efficency speaker - preferably
with audio DSP. Having to buy a kit piece by piece to get it mounted is
annoying.
Any rig designed for mobile use should have the mininum number of faceplate
controls to distract a driver - tuneng, tune, volume, bandswitching (band up
only if it's necessary to use a single pushbutton but two button
bandswiching would be better), filtering, and mode; key and mike jacks on
the faceplate are all that are really necessary for mobile use. Other
controls could be on a menu system. The controls and buttons should be
sufficently distinct that they can be manipulated by feel alone.
'S enough.
73 Pete Allen AC5E
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