Lee,
Doing a keyword search on Ten-Tec's site, I found the 610 on their
/Product Status/ page. It is the 4th item listed down from the top. Here
is the link:
http://radio.tentec.com/status/product-status
73,
Dennis NC2F
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kc9cdt@aol.com wrote:
> I just looked everywhere I could on TT web site...no 610 keyer!
>
> It is MIA....
>
> 73,
>
> Lee
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: JAMES HANLON <knjhanlon@msn.com>
> To: ken.d.brown@hawaiiantel.net; Discussion of Ten-Tec Equipment
> <tentec@contesting.com>
> Sent: Sat, Aug 29, 2009 3:49 pm
> Subject: Re: [TenTec] 610 Has started shipping today
>
>
>
> B&W made the antenna tuner for the BC-610. According to Jack Williamson it
> was
> the BC-939. But they didn't build any BC-610's.
>
> The BC-375, mentioned earlier as the antenna tuner, was a transmitter in its
> own
> right. It had a 211 oscillator, 211 power amplifier, a pair of 211's in the
> modulator, and a 10Y speech amplifier. It used a bunch on plug-in tuning
> units.
> It flew in bomber-sized WW2 aircraft like the B-17 and B24. It was powered
> by a
> 24 volt dynamotor.
>
> Jim, W8KGI
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: Ken Brown<mailto:ken.d.brown@hawaiiantel.net>
> To: Discussion of Ten-Tec Equipment<mailto:tentec@contesting.com>
> Sent: Friday, August 28, 2009 6:46 PM
> Subject: Re: [TenTec] 610 Has started shipping today
>
>
> Some BC-610s were made by Hallicrafters. There was at least one other
> manufacturer, I think it was Barker and Williamson. There may have been
> others too. One version had round corners and the other had square
> corners. One version the power supply had potted transformers in square
> cornered black cans, including the plate (anode) supply transformer.
> Another version had more like an open frame type plate transformer, yet
> the end casings were cast iron, sort of like bell housings, and there
> was potting material in there. The other smaller potted transformers
> were cylindrical cans instead of rectangular with square corners.
>
> They had plug-in tank coils and plug-in oscillators. Space for three
> plug-in oscillators, which could be selected by a switch. Only one tank
> coil could be installed at a time.
>
> DE N6KB
> > The BC-610 was a large HF AM transmitter built by Hallicrafters with a
> pair
> > of 250-TH tubes or something similar in the PA. Just the power
> transformer
> > alone weighed over 100 pounds. The entire transmitter probably weighed
> 500
>
> > or 600 hundred pounds.
> >
> >
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