- 61. Re: [TenTec] DSP in CW transmit? (score: 1)
- Author: "Jim Brown" <jim@audiosystemsgroup.com>
- Date: Fri, 13 Aug 2004 16:02:43 -0500
- DSP can be a double-edged sword. You can do all sorts of wild and wonderful things with it, but you can easily "outrun your headlights" if you aren't careful. The biggest issue is, indeed, latency --
- /archives//html/TenTec/2004-08/msg00584.html (9,539 bytes)
- 62. [TenTec] TenTec Support (score: 1)
- Author: "Jim Brown" <jim@audiosystemsgroup.com>
- Date: Sat, 14 Aug 2004 13:12:03 -0500
- I want to post a very public thank you to the TenTec service department for their help in resolving some problems with a Titan 425 I recently bougtht on EBay. I called for help several times, asking
- /archives//html/TenTec/2004-08/msg00634.html (8,842 bytes)
- 63. Re: [TenTec] Follow up (score: 1)
- Author: "Jim Brown" <jim@audiosystemsgroup.com>
- Date: Sat, 14 Aug 2004 22:03:59 -0500
- To escape the boredom of the rather limited participation, I'm having fun in WAE running QRP (5 w to dipoles) using my K2. Jim K9YC
- /archives//html/TenTec/2004-08/msg00660.html (7,237 bytes)
- 64. Re: [TenTec] The QSK of SSB (score: 1)
- Author: "Jim Brown" <jim@audiosystemsgroup.com>
- Date: Mon, 16 Aug 2004 08:29:18 -0500
- A CW operator who isn't using QSK on nets, in contests, and chasing DX is a LID. When you don't have QSK, you are still transmitting when the station you are calling has already come back to someone
- /archives//html/TenTec/2004-08/msg00685.html (9,824 bytes)
- 65. Re: [TenTec] Ringing in Filters at High Speed CW (score: 1)
- Author: "Jim Brown" <jim@audiosystemsgroup.com>
- Date: Mon, 16 Aug 2004 08:35:39 -0500
- I live in the city of Chicago, and have lots of broadband noise. That noise generates lots of ringing in sharp filters, but all the ringing I hear is excited by that noise hitting those steep filter
- /archives//html/TenTec/2004-08/msg00686.html (7,653 bytes)
- 66. Re: [TenTec] The QSK of QSK (score: 1)
- Author: "Jim Brown" <jim@audiosystemsgroup.com>
- Date: Mon, 16 Aug 2004 09:09:31 -0500
- I own six radios that do very acceptable QSK. They are a K2/100, Omni A, Omni V, TS-850, FT100D, and IC-746. To say that Ten Tec radios are the only radios that do acceptable QSK (or even good QSK) i
- /archives//html/TenTec/2004-08/msg00690.html (9,769 bytes)
- 67. Re: [TenTec] The QSK of QSK (score: 1)
- Author: "Jim Brown" <jim@audiosystemsgroup.com>
- Date: Mon, 16 Aug 2004 11:24:54 -0500
- Biased? If it's a bias, it's a bias based on experience. Since QSK is a MUST for me, I won't buy a rig that doesn't do acceptable QSK. But more to the point. When I started doing ham radio (in 1955),
- /archives//html/TenTec/2004-08/msg00704.html (11,069 bytes)
- 68. Re: [TenTec] The QSK of SSB (score: 1)
- Author: "Jim Brown" <jim@audiosystemsgroup.com>
- Date: Mon, 16 Aug 2004 13:53:51 -0500
- For at least several decades, the designers of studio/broadcast quality devices like compressors and limiters have used "feed forward" techniques, whereby the audio path is delayed by a few ms but un
- /archives//html/TenTec/2004-08/msg00711.html (9,511 bytes)
- 69. Re: [TenTec] The QSK of SSB (score: 1)
- Author: "Jim Brown" <jim@audiosystemsgroup.com>
- Date: Mon, 16 Aug 2004 15:55:08 -0500
- Yes Jim
- /archives//html/TenTec/2004-08/msg00719.html (8,745 bytes)
- 70. Re: [TenTec] The QSK of QSK (score: 1)
- Author: "Jim Brown" <jim@audiosystemsgroup.com>
- Date: Mon, 16 Aug 2004 16:09:07 -0500
- With skill, and with the best QSK radios, ABSOLUTELY! Especially when the DX is working split! And remember, good operating is about SKILL, COURTESY, and GOOD JUDGEMENT. There are differences between
- /archives//html/TenTec/2004-08/msg00723.html (9,921 bytes)
- 71. Re: [TenTec] The QSK of QSK (score: 1)
- Author: "Jim Brown" <jim@audiosystemsgroup.com>
- Date: Tue, 17 Aug 2004 00:06:59 -0500
- Anyone can work lots of DX (and score big in contests with big power and big antennas. This is NOT a measure of operating skill. It takes skill to do it with low power and mediocre antennas. On the o
- /archives//html/TenTec/2004-08/msg00745.html (10,536 bytes)
- 72. Re: [TenTec] The QSK of QSK (score: 1)
- Author: "Jim Brown" <jim@audiosystemsgroup.com>
- Date: Tue, 17 Aug 2004 07:23:27 -0500
- I would say the opposite. Most current award and contest structures reward those who buy more of the most expensive gear and assemble the biggest stations. They cater to the the rich, not to ordinary
- /archives//html/TenTec/2004-08/msg00755.html (11,245 bytes)
- 73. Re: [TenTec] The QSK of QSK (score: 1)
- Author: "Jim Brown" <jim@audiosystemsgroup.com>
- Date: Tue, 17 Aug 2004 09:12:50 -0500
- [K9YC notes that W4BQF works very high speed CW, so he puts that relay through a LOT of cycles annually.] To which Bill Tippett replied: Hmmm right back. I have to use a muffler on my car, to protect
- /archives//html/TenTec/2004-08/msg00762.html (9,986 bytes)
- 74. [TenTec] Spare Tubes (score: 1)
- Author: "Jim Brown" <jim@audiosystemsgroup.com>
- Date: Wed, 18 Aug 2004 13:37:48 -0500
- If I wanted to buy spare tubes for my Titan 425 (3CX800A7), where would I buy them and what's the "right" price? Jim K9YC
- /archives//html/TenTec/2004-08/msg00819.html (7,189 bytes)
- 75. Re: [TenTec] Ten Tec amps and ALC (score: 1)
- Author: "Jim Brown" <jim@audiosystemsgroup.com>
- Date: Wed, 18 Aug 2004 16:27:02 -0500
- Modern rigs and amps don't generally require ALC, and, in fact, ALC is generally not recommended for many amps and rigs. As I understand it, ALC is mainly a leftover from the "old days." My Hercules
- /archives//html/TenTec/2004-08/msg00824.html (8,576 bytes)
- 76. Re: [TenTec] Ten Tec amps and ALC (score: 1)
- Author: "Jim Brown" <jim@audiosystemsgroup.com>
- Date: Wed, 18 Aug 2004 17:32:29 -0500
- The overdrive indicator is important for something even more important than linearity -- the life of the output tubes! 3CX800A7's do not like to be overdriven, and the manual has a bold print warning
- /archives//html/TenTec/2004-08/msg00829.html (9,583 bytes)
- 77. Re: [TenTec] grounding dipoles (score: 1)
- Author: "Jim Brown" <jim@audiosystemsgroup.com>
- Date: Sun, 22 Aug 2004 17:35:48 -0500
- Right! This is a VERY good technique. I've built several dipoles like this and am building more. They work really well. Jim K9YC
- /archives//html/TenTec/2004-08/msg00976.html (8,499 bytes)
- 78. [TenTec] Parallel Dipoles On the Same Coax (score: 1)
- Author: "Jim Brown" <jim@audiosystemsgroup.com>
- Date: Mon, 23 Aug 2004 10:36:01 -0500
- Parallel wire multi-band dipoles (multiple dipoles on the same coax) act just like ordinary single-wire dipoles. There's excellent discussion of them in the ARRL Handbook or Antenna Book -- don't rec
- /archives//html/TenTec/2004-08/msg00995.html (9,215 bytes)
- 79. Re: [TenTec] Herculese II (score: 1)
- Author: "Jim Brown" <jim@audiosystemsgroup.com>
- Date: Mon, 23 Aug 2004 14:32:26 -0500
- Hello, Gene. I'm interested in this amplifier. Jim Brown K9YC 773/728-0565
- /archives//html/TenTec/2004-08/msg00998.html (7,830 bytes)
- 80. Re: [TenTec] Auto tuner question (score: 1)
- Author: "Jim Brown" <jim@audiosystemsgroup.com>
- Date: Thu, 26 Aug 2004 21:52:51 -0500
- I recently bought an LDG AT1000 to use with a Hercules 444 (the original, same power level). I bought it because I very much like the AT100MP. The new tuner arrived not working right, and I sent it b
- /archives//html/TenTec/2004-08/msg01086.html (8,373 bytes)
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