write more or do I go and get the Orion out of the box? WHAT WOULD YOU DO? 73, Bill. Seems to me the answer is obvious - play with the BOX! Enjoy de KD4GT
Heck, I even stop in there every couple months and they won't give me one to beta test! Maybe its cuz of the way I drool on the display units they have set up next to the sales/show room. Actually I
Thanks. I never knew the nomenclature for them before. Always nice to have info that others (especially non-hams & XYLs) don't care about! One possible source for these might be your local Motorola s
In PDF format at: <http://www.mfjenterprises.com/man/pdf/MFJ-259B.pdf> (Gotta love MFJ for making ALL of their manuals available this way. I Hope TT does this soon.) Disable the ?Power Saving? mode b
I set one of these up for a friend & it worked great. First take the whole thing apart - saving all the screws, etc. Clean and pollish all the shiney crome to get all the crud out. Carefully remove t
After years of engineering research, the engineers in Sevierville have found that the black coating on RF generating equipment reduces the birdies and other anomalies that have been reported with som
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For those wanting to really control when and how your amp keys, look into the DownEast Microwave "5 output T/R Sequencer". You can get it ready built for 90$us or you can get the kit of all the parts
You might check MaxGain <http://www.mgs4u.com/relay.htm> for vacuum relays. He has a variety of styles, types and ratings with the associated variety of cost. You can tell him I sent ya but it won't
Most, if not all, batteries will be dropping below 12vdc before much use. While I have never tried to use my Scout (dunno if its early or later run) for very long on only a battery I do plan to use m
OK - so its not really TenTec related but from what I've seen of TenTec users they are more knowlegable & helpful that appliance operators. Help is desired for my daughter who lives on the NW side of
Darn. I was hoping that it wouldn't interfere with my spark gap like that new fangled AM voice stuff has been doing. And has anyone heard the crap that guy Armstrong came up with? It's terrible. That
I love ham radio - and hams. My request for an Elmer was met by several wonderful TenTec lovers; N4XY, W1GOR & K5JS. John, K5JS, lives within a couple miles of my daughter and they have now made cont
Nice unit. Too bad they skimped on the front-end of the rig but the powers that be on the Parkway really thought the repeater crowd was their target market. I tried to tell them different every time
Well, we've certainly seen a lot of opinions now about open (parallel) wire feed line and how it radiates. What you really need to ask yourself is "what is the characteristic impedance of the radiati
NOTE: This really only works for "common mode" RF on the coax but if the problem is common mode current it works fantastic. If the problem comes as differential mode (that's the way we all think coax
Found a lenghtly disertation on VSWR & feed lines at the ARRL TIS web. The file is rather large (1,114,112 bytes, PDF file) and it is a "Members Only" thing but is 66 pages of good information that w
I for one have been waiting for this item to become available and am very grateful to the fine southern folks in Sevierville for alerting me to the fact they are now stamping these out. the only smap