- 1. [TenTec] Product Reviews (score: 1)
- Author: al_lorona@agilent.com (al_lorona@agilent.com)
- Date: Fri Jul 4 15:25:46 2003
- Hi, Everybody, I am about to talk about some of Ten Tec's competition in a manner that will "stir the pot" and reveal a somewhat "anti-Kensucom" bias. If this is going to offend your sensibilities, p
- /archives//html/TenTec/2003-07/msg00144.html (10,605 bytes)
- 2. [TenTec] Product Reviews (score: 1)
- Author: al_lorona@agilent.com (al_lorona@agilent.com)
- Date: Sun Jul 6 01:45:29 2003
- In my third year of high school, I had a friend who passed U.S. History class by only looking at the pictures and the captions in our textbook. That is kind of how I read the QST product reviews. The
- /archives//html/TenTec/2003-07/msg00185.html (11,498 bytes)
- 3. [TenTec] The Near Future (score: 1)
- Author: al_lorona@agilent.com (al_lorona@agilent.com)
- Date: Wed Jun 4 13:13:17 2003
- AN INTERVIEW WITH JACK SPRAT - VICE-PRESIDENT, AMATEUR RADIO SALES, KENSUCOM, INC. CW Forever magazine caught up with Jack Sprat at his Seattle apartment to talk about the current state of amateur ra
- /archives//html/TenTec/2003-06/msg00153.html (11,887 bytes)
- 4. [TenTec] Orion TCXO Warm Up Drift (score: 1)
- Author: al_lorona@agilent.com (al_lorona@agilent.com)
- Date: Wed Jun 18 13:28:12 2003
- Now it's my turn to say, "Huh?" You mean the Ten Tec spec includes what happens in the first hour after power on? That would be highly irregular. Nobody that I know who buys a piece of test equipment
- /archives//html/TenTec/2003-06/msg00571.html (12,393 bytes)
- 5. [TenTec] re: 12VDC for Peg or FD (score: 1)
- Author: al_lorona@agilent.com (al_lorona@agilent.com)
- Date: Fri Jun 20 12:37:28 2003
- Hi, Mark, This is a real issue with battery operation. Lead-acid batteries may start out at 12.6 V, but very rapidly the terminal voltage drops off more or less linearly with time. I have made disch
- /archives//html/TenTec/2003-06/msg00646.html (8,425 bytes)
- 6. [TenTec] Virtual, Actual (score: 1)
- Author: al_lorona@agilent.com (al_lorona@agilent.com)
- Date: Thu May 22 14:29:50 2003
- Yes! Duane, that's so funny. I have a theory on digital clocks. Whenever I see one, I have to imagine an analog clock face to get a 'feel' for what time it is. Sometimes you don't need to know that
- /archives//html/TenTec/2003-05/msg00842.html (11,610 bytes)
- 7. [TenTec] E-NUFF (score: 1)
- Author: al_lorona@agilent.com (al_lorona@agilent.com)
- Date: Fri May 23 00:32:31 2003
- Man, folks always say this after one of my posts. Fine. I get the hint. Al W6LX
- /archives//html/TenTec/2003-05/msg00888.html (6,532 bytes)
- 8. [TenTec] So *That's* Why They Measure That (score: 1)
- Author: al_lorona@agilent.com (al_lorona@agilent.com)
- Date: Fri May 30 23:11:30 2003
- One of the customary measurements in the ARRL product reviews of amateur transceivers is a screen shot of the transmitted CW waveform. In general, Ten Tec radios test favorably while other radios fre
- /archives//html/TenTec/2003-05/msg01175.html (8,052 bytes)
- 9. [TenTec] Enhanced SSB (score: 1)
- Author: al_lorona@agilent.com (al_lorona@agilent.com)
- Date: Fri Apr 18 23:49:47 2003
- Paul, I've been following very closely the digital experiments at WOR. For the rest of the folks: WOR is an AM radio station in New York. The most recent audio samples of the WOR analog and digital s
- /archives//html/TenTec/2003-04/msg00504.html (15,112 bytes)
- 10. [TenTec] Enhanced SSB (score: 1)
- Author: al_lorona@agilent.com (al_lorona@agilent.com)
- Date: Fri Apr 18 23:56:50 2003
- George, I'll take this one. While it is true that the channels are 10 kHz apart, in any one geographical area you never have two stations with adjacent channel allocations because the AM signal is wi
- /archives//html/TenTec/2003-04/msg00505.html (11,879 bytes)
- 11. [TenTec] Enhanced SSB (score: 1)
- Author: al_lorona@agilent.com (al_lorona@agilent.com)
- Date: Sat Apr 19 17:41:52 2003
- Aw, c'mon, George, that question is simply meant to provoke. You already know why! Look, I can be just as silly: For that matter, What are the advantages of transmitting a signal with more than 25 W
- /archives//html/TenTec/2003-04/msg00539.html (13,883 bytes)
- 12. [TenTec] Enhanced SSB (score: 1)
- Author: al_lorona@agilent.com (al_lorona@agilent.com)
- Date: Sat Apr 19 20:43:29 2003
- Yes, George, I'm sorry I didn't get the tone of sincerity that I should have from your post, but you gotta understand that when you follow up a post with a "Sorta hard to answer, eh?" post it casts d
- /archives//html/TenTec/2003-04/msg00546.html (18,979 bytes)
- 13. [TenTec] Slightly OT: SSB vs AM (Warning!: Heavy Sarcasm) (score: 1)
- Author: al_lorona@agilent.com (al_lorona@agilent.com)
- Date: Tue Apr 22 22:51:45 2003
- Shhh, Carl, you used a bad word: fidelity. You see, almost nobody is even considering fidelity in any of these discussions. Only bandwidth. As hams, we're not suppposed to be concerned about fidelit
- /archives//html/TenTec/2003-04/msg00621.html (8,709 bytes)
- 14. [TenTec] Radio Shack 25 amp switching supply? (score: 1)
- Author: al_lorona@agilent.com (al_lorona@agilent.com)
- Date: Mon Mar 10 16:18:04 2003
- I have posted on this topic here before. You may cringe at such a blanket statement, but *all* switching mode power supplies generate noise. As users of extremely sensitive RF receiving equipment, we
- /archives//html/TenTec/2003-03/msg00418.html (13,147 bytes)
- 15. [TenTec] Radio Shack 25 amp switching supply? (score: 1)
- Author: al_lorona@agilent.com (al_lorona@agilent.com)
- Date: Mon Mar 10 16:32:22 2003
- Hi, Scott, In fact, I made a number of similar modifications to one of the Astron SS- family (like Paul's) after I got one about six years ago. I was not pleased with the RFI before the mods but afte
- /archives//html/TenTec/2003-03/msg00420.html (15,943 bytes)
- 16. [TenTec] Radio Shack 25 amp switching supply? (score: 1)
- Author: al_lorona@agilent.com (al_lorona@agilent.com)
- Date: Mon Mar 10 19:21:21 2003
- You won't see any noise on the scope, but you *will* hear it on a shortwave receiver. Al W6LX
- /archives//html/TenTec/2003-03/msg00442.html (8,344 bytes)
- 17. [TenTec] Anyone own Omni6 and TS2000? (score: 1)
- Author: al_lorona@agilent.com (al_lorona@agilent.com)
- Date: Mon, 9 Dec 2002 12:37:37 -0700
- Hi, Mark, Do what you have to do, but I just took another look at the Omni Six product review (in January 1993 QST) and the TS-2000 product review (in July 2001 QST). I like the oscilloscope screen s
- /archives//html/TenTec/2002-12/msg00224.html (12,016 bytes)
- 18. [TenTec] Omni 6+ Low Power Troubles (score: 1)
- Author: al_lorona@agilent.com (al_lorona@agilent.com)
- Date: Sun, 15 Dec 2002 14:28:15 -0700
- MRF 458s have been going extinct for several years now. It gets harder and harder-- and more and more expensive-- to find them. You should be able to substitute MRF 454's with little change in perfor
- /archives//html/TenTec/2002-12/msg00344.html (9,571 bytes)
- 19. [TenTec] RE: Switching Power Supplies (was Samlex 1223) (score: 1)
- Author: al_lorona@agilent.com (al_lorona@agilent.com)
- Date: Mon, 21 Oct 2002 16:18:24 -0600
- Unfortunately, all switching power supplies generate RFI. That's why the League publishes those measurements. The only thing you can do is try and minimize the noise coming out of the switching power
- /archives//html/TenTec/2002-10/msg00441.html (11,795 bytes)
- 20. [TenTec] USB -> RS232 (score: 1)
- Author: al_lorona@agilent.com (al_lorona@agilent.com)
- Date: Fri, 12 Jul 2002 10:29:56 -0600
- Ah, Windows. There was an recent editorial in one of the computer magazines saying how, after all these years, Windows is still not any easier to use, really; still not where it needs to be in terms
- /archives//html/TenTec/2002-07/msg00176.html (10,184 bytes)
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