Hi Ron
HNY (in advance).
I too liked the Argosy (analog - not digital).
But to be honest, my Argonaut 509 into which I addad a 9 MHz CW filter and
mounted its AF filter inside instread of outside, OUT-PERFORMED the Argosy on
receive on the low bands.
There were two reasons for that:
1) The Argosy did not have that lovely "elevator" preselector that the two
Argonauts had, and
2) The Argosy did not have an RF gain.
I solved that problem by adding a switchable RF Attenuator to it and used my
tiny but super-good home-brew tunable 40m preselector with it.
People may wonder why I did not like the "D" version.
Simple: Battery drain. Most of my portable operation was off of a motorcycle
battery.
73,
Rick, DJ0IP
(Nr. Frankfurt, Germany)
-----Original Message-----
From: TenTec [mailto:tentec-bounces@contesting.com] On Behalf Of Ron Notarius
W3WN
Sent: 30 December 2017 00:35
To: 'Discussion of Ten-Tec Equipment' <tentec@contesting.com>
Subject: Re: [TenTec] century 22
Really?
I always thought the C22 was an Argosy without the 50 W "brick" (since it uses
the Argosy case and front panel). Never appealed to me, because I'd rather
have an Argosy (525 or 525D), given the choice, so I never looked into it any
further.
Might explain why the C22 wasn't that popular.
73
-----Original Message-----
From: TenTec [mailto:tentec-bounces@contesting.com] On Behalf Of Dukes HiFi
Sent: Friday, December 29, 2017 5:07 PM
To: Discussion of Ten-Tec Equipment
Cc: w2iy@verizon.net
Subject: Re: [TenTec] century 22
Whoda thunk???
The C21 was a superheterodyne with a 5.0 to 5.5 MHz wide IF stage, fed by the
RF input and the crystal oscillator for each band, and a product detector on
the AF board that uses the VFO as the “BFO” to carry out product detection. It
is NOT direct conversion.
I had always assumed that the C22 was a repackaged C21 with digital display.
WRONG!
It is indeed a direct conversion radio. It premixes the PTO with the crystal
oscillator for each band and shoots the result (which is right on the revive
and transmit frequency) right into a mixer which direct detects signals, then
on to the AF stage! What a downgrade compared with the C21!
WHAT A DOWNGRADE TT made to produce the C22!
If you have a choice, get a C21!
Gary
W0DVN
> On Dec 29, 2017, at 3:04 PM, Winston <jones_winston@bellsouth.net> wrote:
>
> Good fun cw rig.
> Winston K4CWQ
>
> Sent from my iPhone
>
>> On Dec 29, 2017, at 2:56 PM, Dr Richard San Antonio <K1MD@cox.net> wrote:
>>
>> Buy it....lots of fun but don't sell your Omni6+!
>>
>> Richard K1MD
>>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: TenTec [mailto:tentec-bounces@contesting.com] On Behalf Of
>> Michael Tortorella
>> Sent: Friday, December 29, 2017 11:42 AM
>> To: tentec@contesting.com
>> Subject: [TenTec] century 22
>>
>> Hi all, I am contemplating purchase of a Century 22 and would like to
>> hear what people on the list think of that rig.
>>
>> Thanks and 73
>>
>> Mike W2IY
>>
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