Almost forgot to tell you, Mark... The Omni-D (actually any of the old, black Omni rigs) will not operate properly on 17 meters (the 18 MHz band). This is because various mixer products produce spuri
Some of the older rigs, particularly the Triton 4's, could lose the diodes that develop the AGC voltage due to a static discharge or the like. Without those diodes working, when the Drive is advanced
I forward Steve's message. He seeks a model 245 CW filter for his NEW Triton 544. If you'll part with one, please drop him a line. Merry Christmas (or whatever other politically correct greeting you
There's a trick to getting the PTO out of the Omni-D. Here's what Ten-Tec advises: -- PTO REMOVAL AND REPLACEMENT FOR OMNI MODELS 545 AND 546. 1- Remove top, bottom and front panel as per pages 3-1 a
People come and go from this reflector. This is a reminder that many troubles with Astron power supplies can be cured by grounding the negative post to the cabinet. I did it by removing the insulator
Sure, Ten-Tec will make you an excellent copy very reasonably. 73, Mike N4NT Hey Guys and Girls; I need a pdf of the corsair 560 manual. Can anyone tell me where I can find it? 73s Bob ______________
Doing just a cursory search for the name at QRZ.com gives me AC5OG as valid until 2010 and with a home page listed. http://www.qrz.com/callsign/AC5OG shows it as a valid callsign A Software Defined R
Yeah, color would be good. That way we could maybe get an update that gave us "Picture in Picture" so we could watch Fox News while we operated. 73, Mike N4NT american get was
Two? ONLY CW!? Any CB OP can get on the air and push a button and start yakking, How many of them have what it takes to learn and become proficient on CW? Ed
Ten-Tec told me they destroyed the screens years ago (or tossed them). I tried to drum up interest in having a commercial outfit rescreen some but couldn't get much interest aroused. 73, Mike N4NT on
I just exchanged emails with a friend in Manassas about this. He advises that he lives just outside town and was not aware of their use of BPL. Notably he told me that about all the power lines in Ma
Funny... Over the last 3 years we've had problems due to no neutral from the pole into the house. The last time we had very few appliances/lights, etc. powered on. One floor fan sounded like a jet pl
Sounds sorta like what I've experienced. Mine was generated by a 'touch lamp.' see the last section at: http://www.qsl.net/n4tn/noise.html 73, Mike N4NT the I hearing
The Corsair II has more background noise than the Omni-D. Reduce the RF Gain to about the 3 o'clock position and it'll be fine. I also use an Autek QF-1A in the lowpass mode. 73, Mike N4NT I have bee