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Re: [TenTec] OMNI VI & QRO HF2000

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Subject: Re: [TenTec] OMNI VI & QRO HF2000
From: DGB <blueheron@Bayland.net>
Reply-to: Discussion of Ten-Tec Equipment <tentec@contesting.com>
Date: Mon, 29 Oct 2007 14:42:54 -0500
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Thanks for the reply Rick ... ur the only one that replied so I guess 
that's what everyone else is doing without TT Amps! :-)

73 Dwight NS9I

Rick, NJ0IP / DJ0IP wrote:
> Dwight,
>
> I used the combination for about 8 years.
> I actually had both the HF-2000 and the HF-1000 (same as HF-2000, but with
> just one 3-500z), and a pair of OMNI VI's.  Lovely amps and VERY FAST T/R
> with their Jennings vacuum relays, but unfortunately no provision for
> interfacing with Ten-Tec's TX EN/OUT.
>
> I did not use the TX EN/OUT connections.
> I simply used the normal "RELAY" connection.
>
> You will have no problem with SSB.
>
> For CW, it was sometimes touch and go, so when contesting, I used an
> external home-brew box and an external keyer.  The dits and dahs triggered
> the Amp's T/R relay 10ms before being forwarded to the Omni VI.  In
> addition, I could add up to about 1 second of delay (delaying the drop out
> time of the Amp's relay) if desired.  NEVER had any hot switching with that
> arrangement.
>
> I was very active in CW contesting and this combination played like a champ.
>
> 73
> Rick, NJ0IP
> P.S.  The external home-brew box, called the "QSK Platine" is was designed
> by DL7AV and published in the German CQDL magazine back in (about) 1977.
> I've been using it for 30 years now, with all kinds of combinations of amps
> and transceivers.  Lovely device.
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: tentec-bounces@contesting.com [mailto:tentec-bounces@contesting.com]
> On Behalf Of DGB
> Sent: Friday, October 26, 2007 7:08 AM
> To: tentec@contesting.com
> Subject: [TenTec] OMNI VI & QRO HF2000
>
> Anyone using the above combination? What is the best way to connect the two?
>
> thanks Dwight NS9I
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