No CATFISHWO, I don't think you offended anyone, at least not me. This reflector certainly IS for discussing Ten Tec equipment. Part of the problem is, however, if ANYONE say's any part of Ten Tec ge
You have to be joking? ON4UN maybe, but what about KC1XX, N3RS, W3LPL and the rest of the 'big gun' contesters who bought and then got rid of their Orion's? I actually purchased my Orion to use on th
No. It was just a test to see how long it would take you to respond Bill. You are WELL known for your single band contest participation. Tommy W4BQF gun' contesters who bought and then got rid of the
" W9FCX 65 years this month" What he mean is 65 years as a ham...this fellow hasn't seen his 65th birthday in 16 years! :>)) Before anyone thinks I'm picking on W9FCX, I am. Lyle and I QSO every morn
Roy, One of the best and easiest ways to avoid "RF in your shack" is to make sure that one half the length of your antenna plus the total length of your feed line is NOT an odd quarter wavelength lon
I believe what you just said was this: "Roy, One of the best and easiest ways to avoid "RF in your shack" is to make sure that one half the length of your antenna plus the total length of your feed l
I'm certainly not disagreeing with Gary...BUT What is THE most important part of your ham radio system? In my opinion, it's your antenna. Why not build your antenna carefully and correctly to begin w
Tunewin really works well for zero beating to within +/- 10 hz or so. I have never developed the 'skill' to match tones, my best success with zero beating was with the Corsair 2 where I could actuall
Jim, Inrad is now shipping a roofing filter with on Fc of 9000.5 kHz, their model 765, so you could have the roofing filter also centered for 500 Hz. Tommy W4BQF The roofing filter has been used in m
IMPRESSIVE !! IMPRESSIVE !! Big congrats Bob. Tommy W4BQF Having just received my May CQ magazine, I am delighted to report that using SO2R Orions in the 2004 CQ WW RTTY, I managed to take 1st place
Thanks Ken....Very helpful and informative post!! Tommy W4BQF I have a Ten-Tec Instruction Sheet for Models 216, 217, 218, 219, 220 and 221 Crystal Filters which provides a cross reference between mo
That's true! Course they have a LOT more to talk about with the Orion. Tommy W4BQF Orion users are more verbal and passionate! 73, Martin, AA6E On 5/31/05, Ron Grace <rjgdag@ntelos.net> wrote: -- mar
Ahhhhh Haaaaaaaa......YOU must be one of the 12 complainers? Shame on you... Tommy W4BQF However, my Omni VI and TS-480 neither require any kind of external filtering for BCI while the Orion was tota
Version 3.0????? Where was this rumor started? Heck, they have been trying to get V2.0 working for the past eight months...are they just going to jump over v2.0? Tommy W4BQF No, they finally sorted t
No, I disagree with that. We did not 'always commenting about something they do not like'. We only constantly complained about the fact the Orion would not, and still does not work properly with a Te
One can only speculate on this Al. In my opinion, I have no doubt that eventually TT will do the right thing and acquire assistance with the Orion's firmware. Again, in my opinion, it was a silly mis
Dumb suggestion Barry. As I do not have unlimited financial resources, it seemed pretty stupid for me to have to spend another five thousand bucks, when I had just spent thirty-eight hundred bucks fo
Yep Yep And just how did you put the cover back on after you 'put my power supply into the Omni VI+'? (just kidding, of course1) Tommy W4BQF --Original Message-- From: tentec-bounces@contesting.com [
Yes that thread was started several days ago. I really don't understand why, however. You DO NOT need step-start for the Ten Tec transceiver power supplies. You just need to read the manual and do as
I truly urge all Orion owners to READ the owners manual. Keep it on your desk. Read it AGAIN! The Orion is not a plug-and-play radio, it IS a new and different kind of radio that really takes some op