- 41. [TenTec] Performance Measures in QST (score: 1)
- Author: w3uls@3n.net (John Rippey)
- Date: Sun, 07 Apr 2002 19:04:50 -0400
- "The ARRL can run all the tests in the world comparing rigs but the only true test is to sit two rigs side by side in the shack and use them." I broached the subject on the 1000MP qth.net reflector r
- /archives//html/TenTec/2002-04/msg00258.html (8,948 bytes)
- 42. [TenTec] Inrad Mod in OMNI VI (score: 1)
- Author: w3uls@3n.net (John Rippey)
- Date: Thu, 11 Apr 2002 23:04:30 -0400
- I am interested in installing the $15.00 Inrad audio mod on the IF/AF board in my OMNI VI and wonder what type of tools--soldering iron, etc.--should be used to replace the original capacitors and re
- /archives//html/TenTec/2002-04/msg00374.html (6,687 bytes)
- 43. [TenTec] Thank you (score: 1)
- Author: w3uls@3n.net (John Rippey)
- Date: Fri, 12 Apr 2002 11:27:42 -0400
- Many thanks to the Ten-Tec listers who responded to my posting about the Inrad audio mod. The preponderance of the advice was to proceed with caution and my XYL and I will certainly heed the advice.
- /archives//html/TenTec/2002-04/msg00384.html (6,250 bytes)
- 44. [TenTec] 6Plus audio (score: 1)
- Author: w3uls@3n.net (John Rippey)
- Date: Sat, 13 Apr 2002 10:34:38 -0400
- In re frequency read-out, as part of a trip to the factory of my OMNI VI last year Ten-Tec, in response to my complaint about a 100 hz readout error (on one band), added the later TCXO in place of th
- /archives//html/TenTec/2002-04/msg00401.html (6,729 bytes)
- 45. [TenTec] OMNI VI Transmit IMD (score: 1)
- Author: w3uls@3n.net (John Rippey)
- Date: Sat, 13 Apr 2002 12:35:23 -0400
- Something made me look up the January 1993 QST review of the OMNI VI and check its transmit IMD stats. The reviewer, Rus Healy, says (p. 67), "As Fig 1 shows, the transmitter's third-order IMD produc
- /archives//html/TenTec/2002-04/msg00407.html (8,949 bytes)
- 46. [TenTec] OMNI VI Transmit IMD (score: 1)
- Author: w3uls@3n.net (John Rippey)
- Date: Sat, 13 Apr 2002 17:24:57 -0400
- Steve et al: This is known as avoidance--I'm way behind in sending out QSL's, so I'm sitting in front of the computer posting to the Ten-Tec reflector instead . . . It's peculiar that what must be es
- /archives//html/TenTec/2002-04/msg00411.html (8,124 bytes)
- 47. [TenTec] OMNI VI Ovens (score: 1)
- Author: w3uls@3n.net (John Rippey)
- Date: Fri, 19 Apr 2002 21:51:22 -0400
- With regard to WA3JPG's comments regarding ovens in OMNI VI's: I thought: (1) Ten-Tec began installing TCXO''s in later production runs of OMNI's, (2) the TCXO's were in lieu of earlier reference cry
- /archives//html/TenTec/2002-04/msg00576.html (6,479 bytes)
- 48. [TenTec] "Extra in a Day" (score: 1)
- Author: w3uls@3n.net (John Rippey)
- Date: Fri, 19 Apr 2002 22:21:24 -0400
- I am one ham who could never legitimately earn an Extra Class license because I could not master such advanced material. MIT made a huge mistake when it admitted me to its Freshman Class in 1950 and
- /archives//html/TenTec/2002-04/msg00580.html (8,437 bytes)
- 49. [TenTec] Worried? (score: 1)
- Author: w3uls@3n.net (John Rippey)
- Date: Sun, 21 Apr 2002 21:32:13 -0400
- Al: You mean the XYL and I can go on vacation in the Smokies this summer and just accidentally we might have to drive through Sevierville? 73, John, W3ULS
- /archives//html/TenTec/2002-04/msg00653.html (6,658 bytes)
- 50. [TenTec] Optimal mikes (score: 1)
- Author: w3uls@3n.net (John Rippey)
- Date: Fri, 01 Mar 2002 14:40:50 -0500
- With regard to the question, "Which mike is best?", the answer depends on the mike, the rig, and the characteristics of one's voice. Listening to JA's on 10 meter SSB, it appears a number of them hav
- /archives//html/TenTec/2002-03/msg00023.html (6,346 bytes)
- 51. [TenTec] W5YR's Post (score: 1)
- Author: w3uls@3n.net (John Rippey)
- Date: Fri, 01 Mar 2002 14:50:49 -0500
- With regard to W5YR's helpful post on mikes, cf. QST, Dec. 2001, p. 92. Heil mikes are well made, provide different price points, and the man himself is a hands-on ham--I've heard him in casual QSO's
- /archives//html/TenTec/2002-03/msg00024.html (6,241 bytes)
- 52. [TenTec] Orion Features (score: 1)
- Author: w3uls@3n.net (John Rippey)
- Date: Sat, 09 Mar 2002 11:41:49 -0500
- 1. It seems Scott Robbins has a new title (or new to me, anyway)--Amateur Radio Product Manager. This means he's principally responsible for the volume of Ten-Tec's amateur radio sales. So if Scott w
- /archives//html/TenTec/2002-03/msg00299.html (7,435 bytes)
- 53. [TenTec] Holding on to an OMNI (score: 1)
- Author: w3uls@3n.net (John Rippey)
- Date: Sat, 16 Feb 2002 07:00:23 -0500
- I agree with Tim Logan about the value of the OMNI's. Mine has its quirks, but it still is a top gun CW rig. In fact, last year I had cash in hand to sell it after I acquired a Japan Radio JST-245 (w
- /archives//html/TenTec/2002-02/msg00268.html (6,802 bytes)
- 54. [TenTec] Key Clicks (score: 1)
- Author: w3uls@3n.net (John Rippey)
- Date: Sun, 17 Feb 2002 14:51:49 -0500
- Re Key clicks from K4JA: I spoke with Paul, K4JA, this afternoon during a timeout from his contesting and mentioned the key clicks I was hearing yesterday on 10 meters. He said he thought he knew wha
- /archives//html/TenTec/2002-02/msg00290.html (6,399 bytes)
- 55. [TenTec] Mikes & SSB (score: 1)
- Author: w3uls@3n.net (John Rippey)
- Date: Tue, 19 Feb 2002 17:41:47 -0500
- Dr. Johnson's recent post said in part (paraphrasing) he suspects the optimal choice of a mike depends on the quality of the voice and the SSB filtering of the particular transmitter. I can confirm t
- /archives//html/TenTec/2002-02/msg00334.html (6,790 bytes)
- 56. [TenTec] Mark V/OMNI VI Face-Off (score: 1)
- Author: w3uls@3n.net (John Rippey)
- Date: Thu, 21 Feb 2002 20:22:18 -0500
- A number of correspondents have expressed an interest in learning what I find in a multi-month face-off I've set up between a Yaesu Mark V and a tried-and-true OMNI VI (Option 2). Final results won't
- /archives//html/TenTec/2002-02/msg00369.html (8,353 bytes)
- 57. [TenTec] Orion Pricing (score: 1)
- Author: w3uls@3n.net (John Rippey)
- Date: Fri, 25 Jan 2002 13:14:20 -0500
- The problem Ten-Tec has with its pricing is that the high dollar valuation vs. the yen means that YaeComWood can copy and then undersell any American-made product, no matter how worthy. The only solu
- /archives//html/TenTec/2002-01/msg00399.html (6,489 bytes)
- 58. [TenTec] Ulrich Rohde, et al (score: 1)
- Author: w3uls@3n.net (John Rippey)
- Date: Sat, 26 Jan 2002 09:03:02 -0500
- I wish Ulrich Rohde, KA2WEU, or David Newkirk, WJ1Z, were subscribers to this reflector, since many of the discussions here deal with serious, and often conflicting, receiver design issues. Rohde, in
- /archives//html/TenTec/2002-01/msg00435.html (6,795 bytes)
- 59. [TenTec] DSP Circuits (score: 1)
- Author: w3uls@3n.net (John Rippey)
- Date: Sun, 27 Jan 2002 15:03:49 -0500
- Mr. Jednacz: Can you explain why, since DSP is so flexible, ICOM seems to have trouble getting the keying right for CW? The latest 756 PRO II shows up in the Februrary QST report with poor, and appar
- /archives//html/TenTec/2002-01/msg00491.html (6,990 bytes)
- 60. [TenTec] Receiver Audio Quality (score: 1)
- Author: w3uls@3n.net (John Rippey)
- Date: Wed, 30 Jan 2002 20:24:32 -0500
- Folks: My Japan Radio JST-245 has excellent receive audio. Probably the best of any production ham transceiver. There's no reason why it can't be done, and done in the original design. No mods needed
- /archives//html/TenTec/2002-01/msg00616.html (6,382 bytes)
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