Steve, Good questions, and this goes back some time, as I remember it, we had the line going into a 9:1 balun at each end. On the distant end, where the microwattmeter was, we had the 50 ohm terminat
Steve, I stand corrected, my memory is good but short <g>. I went back and looked at the article. The single tuner was at the far end. That did make it easier to adjust it while looking at the uW met
Steve, Well keep in mind that everything here is close to being matched. The generator was delivering all it could to the optimum load that was presented to it. Think transmitter - transmission line
Hi Bob, I have a good working (T/R) Paragon, with the 6 kHz AM filter that you will want. It does have a very nice receiver (transmitter works well also). I will sell it with all filters for $500 plu
Lee, There is nothing wrong with taking readings at the bottom of the transmission line, you just need to understand what they really mean. If you have a reasonably short, reasonably low loss transmi
Folks, To get the definitive information on this topic, please go to www.arrl.org/forum. Look for the Technology category and then scroll down to Equipment Testing. Look for the three postings fro
Rick, et al, Once again, radios tested earlier than 2007 can be directly compared unless they were noted as being "noise limited," meaning that we were unable to take the data at that point. Obviousl
Ray,Very true, but keep in mind that the feature sets are different between the first two groups. All the radios in the first group either have, or offer, a second receiver. This was a major differen
I use mine on 17 and 12 meters, I think 17 on the 15 meter position and 12 on the 10 meter position. I haven't tried it on 30 meters since the 3 dB advantage to 200 W doesn't seem worth the trouble,
Amen! Regards, Joel Hallas, W1ZR Westport, CT Pepe, Elecraft is small company also, maybe smaller than TenTec. So what is their excuse? None, they don't need any. They beat the Japanese quite well. J
Well, I upgraded from a Corsair to a Paragon and was very happy with the A/B VFO flexibility, as well as with the great SWL and BC AM GC receive for many years (got beyond 200 DXCC) until I moved to
Hi Mike, I have a very nice Paragon 1 that I'd be willing to part with, if you're interested? Regards, Joel Joel R. Hallas, W1ZR Subject says it all. No junk, but doesn't need to be perfect either. M
To my knowledge, there is no easy way to add just 60 meters to a Paragon's transmit range. It is very simple, however, to let it transmit over all of its range. There is a wire on top of the chassis
It is: TEN-TEC: The First 40 Years 1968-2008 -- By N.L. Williams It is available from the ARRL, if you can't find it locally. $19.95. I looked through it at Hq yesterday, very interesting, including
Al, You might want to take a look at www.telepostinc.com/. They don't get much more accurate than Larry's LP-100A. Regards, Joel Joel R. Hallas, W1ZR --Original Message-- From: tentec-bounces@contest
Rule 1 is use the minimum inductance. With an L-network there really should only be one match, or all apparent matches should be very close to the same settings. I suppose if there needs to be a rule
I can't think of a reason that they wouldn't. In fact it is even more important with a T match, since there are an infinite number of combinations that can provide a match. The point is that the wire
Folks, I have been following this thread a bit, although haven't read every posting. To set the stage, while I have been a Ten Tec user over the last 20+ years, I now own and use a K3 as my primary H
Hi John, I have a very solid Paragon I would sell. It has all filters, has recently been to TT to fix the classic PLL problem, but seems fine now. I used it as my primary rig for the last 15 years an
Mark, I have been using my Centaur on AM for some time without problems. Keep in mind that the PEP output in 100% modulated AM is 4 times the carrier output. I belief a safe level is to keep the powe