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21. [TenTec] Product Reviews (score: 1): Author: AC5E@aol.com (AC5E@aol.com); Date: Sun Jul 6 13:38:34 2003; In a perfect world objective testing - numbers only - would provide all the information needed to make a buying decision. But this lacks a heap of being a perfect world. For example, a long time budd; /archives//html/TenTec/2003-07/msg00190.html (10,944 bytes)
22. [TenTec] Product Reviews (score: 1): Author: AC5E@aol.com (AC5E@aol.com); Date: Sun Jul 6 21:09:00 2003; Now I'm the one who is surprised, George. Sometimes I don't even agree with myself, and I certainly do not expect any one else to. But as you say, a high percentage of Icoms do work out of the box. A; /archives//html/TenTec/2003-07/msg00202.html (13,094 bytes)
23. [TenTec] field day from hell (score: 1): Author: AC5E@aol.com (AC5E@aol.com); Date: Mon Jul 7 12:29:20 2003; Let me extend my sympathy, Mike. I have had a couple of Field Days like that also. Back in '56 we almost broke our backs toting a home brew rig to the FD site, the mosquitos almost ate us up, and we; /archives//html/TenTec/2003-07/msg00223.html (9,328 bytes)
24. [TenTec] COAX AND FERRITE BALUNS (score: 1): Author: AC5E@aol.com (AC5E@aol.com); Date: Fri Jul 11 15:12:38 2003; Hi All: A properly wound coax balun with the layers bucking is an extremely effective balun. I generally use RG213, and a 2" piece of 4" ID plastic pipe with three wire ties spaced equally around the; /archives//html/TenTec/2003-07/msg00347.html (8,626 bytes)
25. [TenTec] balanced feedline light bulb test (score: 1): Author: AC5E@aol.com (AC5E@aol.com); Date: Tue Jul 15 14:39:43 2003; A #47 or similar panel lamp in a holder attached to a couple of 12" pieces of insulated wiring (usually on the end of a stick) was a pretty common RF indicator way back when. We also used an NE2 or N; /archives//html/TenTec/2003-07/msg00427.html (10,373 bytes)
26. [TenTec] balanced feedline light bulb test (score: 1): Author: AC5E@aol.com (AC5E@aol.com); Date: Tue Jul 15 16:31:15 2003; With INSULATED wire a simple pickup loop - a metal coathanger always worked well with the panel lamp connected in place of the handle - per the 1938 ARRL Antenna Book. It still needs to be insulated,; /archives//html/TenTec/2003-07/msg00435.html (9,612 bytes)
27. [TenTec] balanced feedline light bulb test (score: 1): Author: AC5E@aol.com (AC5E@aol.com); Date: Tue Jul 15 20:41:44 2003; Another discussion that brings back memories! No, a single lamp no matter how coupled, won't show balance. That takes two lamps, one for each side of the transmission line, at the same time. And at t; /archives//html/TenTec/2003-07/msg00448.html (9,747 bytes)
28. [TenTec] balanced feedline light bulb test (score: 1): Author: AC5E@aol.com (AC5E@aol.com); Date: Wed Jul 16 17:03:43 2003; Weeel - a light bulb current indicator is a pretty fair indicator of the presence of RF. And it's been used as one for many years. But tests back in the 1930's comparing brightnesses to determine the; /archives//html/TenTec/2003-07/msg00489.html (9,892 bytes)
29. [TenTec] Omni VI+ PC commands help (score: 1): Author: AC5E@aol.com (AC5E@aol.com); Date: Fri Jul 25 07:23:53 2003; Trying to get the computer to talk to the Omni VI and the Plus can be a first class pain. But it can be done. First, go though the rigs menus and set the port (default should be 4 but you can set it; /archives//html/TenTec/2003-07/msg00669.html (7,550 bytes)
30. [TenTec] RE: dBm (score: 1): Author: AC5E@aol.com (AC5E@aol.com); Date: Fri Jul 25 18:22:36 2003; Unless they have changed the definitition since they changed cycles per second to Hertz; a dBm is "decibels referenced to one milliwatt at a specified impedance." Back in those days, unless some othe; /archives//html/TenTec/2003-07/msg00685.html (6,746 bytes)
31. [TenTec] Why Ethernet? (score: 1): Author: AC5E@aol.com (AC5E@aol.com); Date: Sun Jun 1 21:12:41 2003; Well, I agree about Ethernet for networked computers. My sales and order fulfillment system at work has 21 workstations, and two servers. The inventory system has its own server and five workstations; /archives//html/TenTec/2003-06/msg00020.html (10,805 bytes)
32. [TenTec] On the practical side (score: 1): Author: AC5E@aol.com (AC5E@aol.com); Date: Mon Jun 2 10:19:20 2003; While dreaming of a shack with capabilities straight out of the Jetsons is nice - realization at an affordable-to-most-hams is another matter. Essentially - enabling Ethernet on most of the peripheri; /archives//html/TenTec/2003-06/msg00038.html (8,132 bytes)
33. [TenTec]Ethernet adapter/Milog (score: 1): Author: AC5E@aol.com (AC5E@aol.com); Date: Mon Jun 2 18:37:10 2003; The MIlog site lists LAN/SHACK adapters on the ordering page. As I suspected they cost more than a decent to excellent router, and that does not include the extra expense of Ethernet enabled peripher; /archives//html/TenTec/2003-06/msg00067.html (6,404 bytes)
34. [TenTec] Some Observations on Orion Stability/Calibration (score: 1): Author: AC5E@aol.com (AC5E@aol.com); Date: Mon Jun 2 19:11:33 2003; Carl, your station and WWV don't have to move relative to each other. The only thing necessary for a small frequency shift is a change in the height where refraction /reflection occurs in the ionosph; /archives//html/TenTec/2003-06/msg00071.html (8,645 bytes)
35. [TenTec] Jupiter/Orion on 60 Meters (score: 1): Author: AC5E@aol.com (AC5E@aol.com); Date: Wed Jun 4 15:03:00 2003; According to the latest TenTec updates to include 60 will be posted before July 3. And let me add that for the time being at least, it would be by far the most prudent course to set your transmit ban; /archives//html/TenTec/2003-06/msg00165.html (7,737 bytes)
36. [TenTec] RE: CW keying w. version 1.345 (score: 1): Author: AC5E@aol.com (AC5E@aol.com); Date: Sat Jun 7 08:18:55 2003; Well, mine works fine after I turned the internal keyer back on. Although I have not tried the front panel key jack - yes, it works too. LCW and UCW. 73 Pete Allen AC5E; /archives//html/TenTec/2003-06/msg00255.html (6,307 bytes)
37. [TenTec] Black machine screws (score: 1): Author: AC5E@aol.com (AC5E@aol.com); Date: Sat Jun 7 12:00:24 2003; If you can find some plain (unplated) steel screws that will fit you can use either gun blue or parkerizing solution to blacken them to any degree desired. Both should be avaliable at any gun shop or; /archives//html/TenTec/2003-06/msg00261.html (6,673 bytes)
38. [TenTec] TCXO (score: 1): Author: AC5E@aol.com (AC5E@aol.com); Date: Sun Jun 15 21:16:02 2003; W6JFR's comments about drift remind me of some CW only rigs I had that would "drift" a KC, kHz, or so with every dah. Made a lot of contacts on the old "chirp box" and nobody said much about it. In f; /archives//html/TenTec/2003-06/msg00502.html (6,903 bytes)
39. [TenTec] Ten Tec Orion versa Pro II or 1000D (score: 1): Author: AC5E@aol.com (AC5E@aol.com); Date: Tue Jun 24 14:22:04 2003; I had the two rigs mentioned in the subject here for rig shootouts, and we were able to copy Europeans on the Orion that were buried in the noise on the others. The Orion's filtering is superb, audio; /archives//html/TenTec/2003-06/msg00734.html (6,809 bytes)
40. [TenTec]Rig tests (score: 1): Author: AC5E@aol.com (AC5E@aol.com); Date: Tue Jun 24 16:25:49 2003; I have seen so many "highly peculiar" test results over the half century plus I have been involved with electronics I really don't trust "objective" tests. By the time the test sees print at least so; /archives//html/TenTec/2003-06/msg00741.html (7,979 bytes)

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