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Re: [TenTec] Orion 2 situation

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Subject: Re: [TenTec] Orion 2 situation
From: <chacuff@cableone.net>
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Date: Tue, 2 Jul 2013 12:50:28 +0000
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Sorry All...I should have taken that one off the list...

 

Some lists I frequent use the “Reply” to reply directly to the poster others 
such as this one sends all forms of “Reply” to the list.  I fall into the trap 
regularly....plus struggling with Windows 8 and how to do things I have done 
simply in the past....

 

Again my apologies...



Thanks,

Cecil Acuff
Gulfport MS
K5DL


From: Richards
Sent: ‎July‎ ‎2‎, ‎2013 ‎12‎:‎08‎ ‎AM
To: Discussion of Ten-Tec Equipment
Subject: Re: [TenTec] Orion 2 situation


I enjoyed this post more than any other in the past month.

-------------------  K8JHR  --------------------




On 7/1/2013 8:53 PM, chacuff@cableone.net wrote:
> Jim,  You remember quite accurately.
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> I’ve lived here since about 1968.  Dad retired from the Air Force at Keesler. 
>  He was an air traffic controller...I spent many hours with him in the 
> control tower.  If you were here around 1970 then you saw first had the 
> remnants of Hurrican Camille.  What a mess.
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>
> Yep we had a Taco Bell in Gulfport...corner of 25th Ave and Pass Rd.  Ate 
> there a lot years ago too..  Edgewater mall is still there...modernized 
> especially after going under water during our most recent major hurricane 
> Katrina.  The KarmelKorn shop merged with Orange Julius and I think is still 
> there but smaller.
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> Do you remember any of your instructors names.  Have a good friend whose Dad 
> taught Electronics at Keesler...Larry Patterson.  He was a civilian 
> contractor.  Keesler has been like home to me.
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> I plan to retire somewhere else though....I have come to hate the Hurricane 
> threat and the Humidity here....
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> Looking at East TN.  My Dads family was from there....we vacation there and 
> love the area.
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> Good to talk to you Jim...  Where do you call Home?  Just had my Son move to 
> Lancaster CA after graduating college.  Working for NASA at Edwards AFB.
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> Cecil Acuff
> Gulfport MS
> K5DL
>
>
> From: Jim Lowman
> Sent: ‎July‎ ‎1‎, ‎2013 ‎6‎:‎56‎ ‎PM
> To: Discussion of Ten-Tec Equipment
> Subject: Re: [TenTec] Orion 2 situation
>
>
> Thanks for the explanation, Cecil.  It makes sense.
>
> Gulfport, MS eh?  Well it's been a lot of years.  I was in
> electronics/radar school at Keesler AFB from September, 1970 to May, 1971.
>
> We were newlyweds then, and would drive over to Gulfport the back way to
> go to the Taco Bell, of all places.  How little we knew then!
> More often than not, we'd stop at the mall on the way back to Biloxi.
> They had a KarmelKorn shop.
>
> 73 de Jim - AD6CW
>
> On 7/1/2013 4:21 PM, chacuff@cableone.net wrote:
>> Higher output from the device before distortion occurs.   You can only get 
>> so much power out of a PA with a 12V power supply before you drive it into 
>> distortion.  100W is pushing it at 12 v so distortion occurs...that same PA 
>> with a supply of 48V is capable of providing that same level of power very 
>> cleanly....  There are peaks that exceed the supplies capabilities at 12 V
>>
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>>
>> I guess a very simplistic parallel would be battery operated power 
>> tools...(I know tech guys...poor choice) you may have noticed over the years 
>> that they went from 12V batteries to 14.4 to 18 and higher 
>> voltages...because of the limited amount of power available at a given 
>> voltage.
>>
>>
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>> I guess if we all ran our 100W PEP radio’s at 50w PEP the problem would be 
>> greatly reduced because we wouldn't bump into the power supplies limitations 
>> and resulting distortion.
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>> Same concept applies to the Mixers listed below...if you want to drive them 
>> hard you need to have enough supply voltage and current available to keep 
>> their output clean.
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>> Hope that helps a bit...
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>>
>>
>> Thanks,
>>
>> Cecil Acuff
>> Gulfport MS
>> K5DL
>>
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