- 1. Re: [TenTec] And STILL waiting... (score: 1)
- Author: "Geoffrey S. Mendelson" <gsm@mendelson.com>
- Date: Sun, 22 Feb 2009 21:28:01 +0200
- Coolaid is a soft drink mix. It's a (almost) fruit flavor with a lot of sugar. It was used by the leader of a relegious cult in the 1970's to commit mass suicide. So "drinking the coolaid" is slang f
- /archives//html/TenTec/2009-02/msg00309.html (8,996 bytes)
- 2. Re: [TenTec] MPF132? (score: 1)
- Author: "Geoffrey S. Mendelson" <gsm@mendelson.com>
- Date: Thu, 22 Jan 2009 21:10:58 +0200
- On Thu, Jan 22, 2009 at 01:45:14PM -0500, Roscoe Primrose wrote: I think the front end in my Argonaut 509 is dead. Noise on 80M last night was S0 on the 509, the same antenna hooked up to my FT817ND
- /archives//html/TenTec/2009-01/msg00292.html (8,036 bytes)
- 3. Re: [TenTec] Orion and O II Firmware Update? (score: 1)
- Author: "Geoffrey S. Mendelson" <gsm@mendelson.com>
- Date: Wed, 3 Dec 2008 00:02:00 +0200
- On Tue, Dec 02, 2008 at 09:39:58PM +0000, Barry N1EU wrote: Rick, I think you have some good points in there but I honestly don't get the thrust of what you're saying - that Ten-Tec has a more mature
- /archives//html/TenTec/2008-12/msg00027.html (11,298 bytes)
- 4. Re: [TenTec] Time Sharing Radio Access? (score: 1)
- Author: "Geoffrey S. Mendelson" <gsm@mendelson.com>
- Date: Mon, 15 Dec 2008 21:02:49 +0200
- The Cyclone Amateur Radio Club at ISU set up such an operation a couple years ago, mostly as a senior project. I don't think it continues to run. They called it ICARUS. http://www.stuorg.iastate.edu/
- /archives//html/TenTec/2008-12/msg00155.html (9,702 bytes)
- 5. Re: [TenTec] Shaed rig use. (score: 1)
- Author: "Geoffrey S. Mendelson" <gsm@mendelson.com>
- Date: Tue, 16 Dec 2008 23:03:38 +0200
- I have thought of asking the senior center near the center of town if they might put up a mast with wire antenna for shared use by others who may be in the same situation in our city of about 100,00
- /archives//html/TenTec/2008-12/msg00174.html (8,481 bytes)
- 6. Re: [TenTec] The Titan IIII IV???? (score: 1)
- Author: "Geoffrey S. Mendelson" <gsm@mendelson.com>
- Date: Fri, 19 Dec 2008 07:27:28 +0200
- Roman numbers for 4 is written "IV." Not in Rome. The Roman numeral for 4 is IIII. When someone decided that children could be taught simple arithmetic using Roman numerals in the 20th century, they
- /archives//html/TenTec/2008-12/msg00226.html (8,810 bytes)
- 7. Re: [TenTec] Ten Tec Fan Disappointment.... (score: 1)
- Author: "Geoffrey S. Mendelson" <gsm@mendelson.com>
- Date: Wed, 19 Nov 2008 20:44:11 +0200
- On Wed, Nov 19, 2008 at 10:36:43AM -0800, Ron Castro wrote: I should have added to my previous post "with the exception of 40 meter and (rarely) 80 meter SSB" about split contest operation. However i
- /archives//html/TenTec/2008-11/msg00168.html (10,722 bytes)
- 8. Re: [TenTec] Serious market overlooked by ham manufacturers (score: 1)
- Author: "Geoffrey S. Mendelson" <gsm@mendelson.com>
- Date: Sat, 2 Aug 2008 23:56:58 +0300
- Bear in mind that those are U.S. numbers. The numbers in the "Americas" of hams in general are miniscule compared to the U.S. and 222 does not exist as a ham band in the rest of the world. It's also
- /archives//html/TenTec/2008-08/msg00014.html (10,110 bytes)
- 9. Re: [TenTec] Serious market overlooked by ham manufacturers (score: 1)
- Author: "Geoffrey S. Mendelson" <gsm@mendelson.com>
- Date: Mon, 4 Aug 2008 07:03:21 +0300
- If you look back to our discussion where I proposed a basic 20m SSB rig, all of the arguments against it hold here too. As for construction costs, a 20m SSB rig, of "rag chew" quality can be retooled
- /archives//html/TenTec/2008-08/msg00035.html (10,436 bytes)
- 10. Re: [TenTec] Jupiter firmware any news???? (score: 1)
- Author: "Geoffrey S. Mendelson" <gsm@mendelson.com>
- Date: Thu, 14 Aug 2008 16:43:23 +0300
- I could say the same about my 544 which I bought used (after a Ten-Tec "refurb") a couple of years ago. No upgrades planned and IMHO none needed. Geoff. -- Geoffrey S. Mendelson, Jerusalem, Israel gs
- /archives//html/TenTec/2008-08/msg00192.html (10,155 bytes)
- 11. Re: [TenTec] Orion II A9 Board Failure...Again! (score: 1)
- Author: "Geoffrey S. Mendelson" <gsm@mendelson.com>
- Date: Wed, 25 Jun 2008 19:08:49 +0300
- This was very well documented in the press. A Tiwanese engineer worked for a Japanese manufacturer of electrolytics. He stole the formula for the electrolyte (the liquid inside the capacitors). His e
- /archives//html/TenTec/2008-06/msg00429.html (10,675 bytes)
- 12. Re: [TenTec] Mics for Pegasus NEWBE HERE HELLO ALL (score: 1)
- Author: "Geoffrey S. Mendelson" <gsm@mendelson.com>
- Date: Fri, 27 Jun 2008 17:41:37 +0300
- The Astatic amplifier in the D-104 base is designed as an impedence matching device, not a "talk power improver" (whatever that would be). There is some insertion loss, so if the gain is set at it's
- /archives//html/TenTec/2008-06/msg00475.html (9,841 bytes)
- 13. Re: [TenTec] Coax connectors (score: 1)
- Author: "Geoffrey S. Mendelson" <gsm@mendelson.com>
- Date: Sat, 31 May 2008 21:04:10 +0300
- Can anyone recommend a place that will take orders over the Internet, is reliable and ships quickly and cheaply? I have relatives coming for a wedding in two weeks and if I can get the connectors to
- /archives//html/TenTec/2008-05/msg00645.html (9,647 bytes)
- 14. Re: [TenTec] Coax connectors (score: 1)
- Author: "Geoffrey S. Mendelson" <gsm@mendelson.com>
- Date: Sat, 31 May 2008 22:23:53 +0300
- Thanks, Geoff. -- Geoffrey S. Mendelson, Jerusalem, Israel gsm@mendelson.com N3OWJ/4X1GM
- /archives//html/TenTec/2008-05/msg00652.html (8,966 bytes)
- 15. Re: [TenTec] Coax connectors (score: 1)
- Author: "Geoffrey S. Mendelson" <gsm@mendelson.com>
- Date: Sat, 31 May 2008 22:24:47 +0300
- Thanks, Don't they have a minumum order? Geoff. -- Geoffrey S. Mendelson, Jerusalem, Israel gsm@mendelson.com N3OWJ/4X1GM
- /archives//html/TenTec/2008-05/msg00653.html (9,204 bytes)
- 16. Re: [TenTec] Triton IV questions (score: 1)
- Author: "Geoffrey S. Mendelson" <gsm@mendelson.com>
- Date: Tue, 15 Apr 2008 19:35:35 +0300
- The rig tunes slightly off frequency in CW mode so that you can hear signals on the same frequency you are transmitting. (CW Offset). Turning ON ZERO BEAT turns OFF the OFFSET. To tune in a signal ex
- /archives//html/TenTec/2008-04/msg00222.html (9,076 bytes)
- 17. Re: [TenTec] Ten-Tec Transceiver Survey (score: 1)
- Author: "Geoffrey S. Mendelson" <gsm@mendelson.com>
- Date: Thu, 17 Apr 2008 07:42:06 +0300
- I don't see it at all. What I see is that someone from Ten-Tec has been quitely reading the discussions we've had since the announcment of the OII on firmware. Now that they are no longer spending al
- /archives//html/TenTec/2008-04/msg00287.html (10,604 bytes)
- 18. Re: [TenTec] Ten-Tec Transceiver Survey (score: 1)
- Author: "Geoffrey S. Mendelson" <gsm@mendelson.com>
- Date: Thu, 17 Apr 2008 10:48:49 +0300
- Just to stir things up a bit, I really wonder if anything below 20m and CW is really needed in a low end radio these days. With many new or at least new to HF hams out there, there is IMHO a demand f
- /archives//html/TenTec/2008-04/msg00289.html (11,432 bytes)
- 19. Re: [TenTec] cheap CW rig (score: 1)
- Author: "Geoffrey S. Mendelson" <gsm@mendelson.com>
- Date: Thu, 17 Apr 2008 20:43:34 +0300
- My point exactly, but written from the what can Ten-Tec do about it point of view. Ten years ago, my landlord saw my bug on a table and said "the Internet made that all obsolete". This is in a countr
- /archives//html/TenTec/2008-04/msg00324.html (9,410 bytes)
- 20. Re: [TenTec] cheap CW rig (score: 1)
- Author: "Geoffrey S. Mendelson" <gsm@mendelson.com>
- Date: Thu, 17 Apr 2008 22:29:38 +0300
- Somehow this got turned around. One of my points was this radio should have CW as an extra cost option, not be a CW radio. Part of its appeal is that new hams, who do not know how to copy morse code,
- /archives//html/TenTec/2008-04/msg00330.html (11,317 bytes)
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