Congrats Greg and I'm sure you're very relieved! It is unfortunately very understandable how that encoder connection could have been loose. 73, Barry N1EU
After Greg told me about them way back, I contacted them and subsequently added them to the Wiki: http://www.tentecwiki.org/doku.php?id=indy 73, Barry N1EU
You don't want the roofing filter option for the KX-3 because it has to be defeated if there are reasonably strong in/out-of-band signals. You would be fine with just 40 & 20M from the mountain top.
Yes, it looks like a nice rig. Please post your impressions after playing with it Rick! I vaguely remember some comments about cw performance. I know it doesn't do QSK but hopefully it does smooth se
Carrying that much battery weight up a mountain on your back is foolish IMHO. For a KX3, 5oz of LiPO per two hours of activation is more than sufficient. For a KX1 or MTR, less than half that much ba
Great point and I think Scott Robbins W4PA bears mentioning in that vain. He's one of THE top cw contesters in the world. Flex has already come around with the Maestro, although all of us old Seinfel
You need to join the Yahoo Eagle group here: https://groups.yahoo.com/neo/groups/TenTec_Eagle Then you can get the firmware in the Files section of the Group Home under "From Ten-Tec". I believe this
FWIW, a slew of (majority?) of SOTA activators (including me) regularly use inexpensive Chinese LiPO batteries and chargers from hobbyking.com with good results. 73, Barry N1EU
Should we assume the unmarked filter is in the standard/default slot and presumably a 2.4KHz 8-pole filter? It's a matter of preference but I'd say that enabling the filter all the time should work f
If somebody has an Orion or Orion II cracked open in the near future, please inspect and report the EXACT part number stenciled on the CPU chip. Personally, I'd look for an exact match for a spare ch
I found it, thanks to the Wiki's battery replacement instructional image! The Orion uses a *MC68EZ328PU16V*, so that's specifically what I'd look for on eBay 73, Barry N1EU