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Re: [TenTec] SS last weekend

To: tentec@contesting.com, ronc@sonic.net
Subject: Re: [TenTec] SS last weekend
From: "bill rowlett" <c4atu@hotmail.com>
Reply-to: Discussion of Ten-Tec Equipment <tentec@contesting.com>
Date: Tue, 07 Nov 2006 19:14:52 +0000
List-post: <mailto:tentec@contesting.com>
How about changing the subject line. This has nothing to do with "SS last 
weekend".


KC4ATU

>From: Ken Brown <ken.d.brown@hawaiiantel.net>
>Reply-To: ken.d.brown@hawaiiantel.net,Discussion of Ten-Tec Equipment 
><tentec@contesting.com>
>To: Ron Castro <ronc@sonic.net>,Discussion of Ten-Tec Equipment 
><tentec@contesting.com>
>Subject: Re: [TenTec] SS last weekend
>Date: Tue, 07 Nov 2006 08:28:54 -1000
>
>The ferrite is keeping RF picked up by to headphone cable from getting
>into the electronics and causing the thump, right? So then is the Orion
>not designed to work around strong EM fields, without having to add
>attachments to your headphone cable?
>
>I have had RF intrusion into various rigs, cause troubles. Every time it
>was due to a poorly made cable connected to an input (usually
>microphone) never to a headphone output jack. So I know that even the
>best rigs may be susceptible to strong RF in the shack. On the headphone
>jack though? From just the pickup on the headphone cable? Tell me it is
>not true, and the guys with this problem are either doing something
>really wrong, or have defective rigs. This is Ten-Tec premier rig, right?
>
>DE N6KB
>
>
>
>Ron Castro wrote:
> > The thumping in the headphones on 15 meters is not an uncommon problem.  
>Try
> > it on 10, and it will probably be more pronounced, and even more so if 
>you
> > run power.  You need to wrap the end of your headphone cable around a
> > ferrite loop like the FT-240 43 or 77 mix.  That fixed the problem for 
>me
> > and for a few others here on the list.
> >
> > Ron Castro
> > Chief Technical Officer
> > Results Radio, LLC
> >
> >
> >
> >
>
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