- 1. [TenTec] Argonaut 505 (score: 1)
- Author: "JAMES T HANLON" <knjhanlon@msn.com>
- Date: Wed, 17 Dec 2003 09:49:10 -0700
- Y'all, I just became a new owner of an Argonaut 505, the very first Argonaut and my first Ten Tec rig. It came with the model 210 power supply. I am noticing a 120 Hz hum on the transmitter note on C
- /archives//html/TenTec/2003-12/msg00656.html (6,972 bytes)
- 2. Re: [TenTec] Argonaut 505 (score: 1)
- Author: "JAMES T HANLON" <knjhanlon@msn.com>
- Date: Wed, 17 Dec 2003 13:16:02 -0700
- Bill, Thanks for the input. I am monitoring with another receiver in the shack and with the Argonaut driving a Heathkit Cantenna. I can hear an obvious difference when I change the power supplies, th
- /archives//html/TenTec/2003-12/msg00664.html (10,257 bytes)
- 3. Re: [TenTec] Argonaut 505 (score: 1)
- Author: "JAMES T HANLON" <knjhanlon@msn.com>
- Date: Wed, 17 Dec 2003 13:16:02 -0700
- Bill, Thanks for the input. I am monitoring with another receiver in the shack and with the Argonaut driving a Heathkit Cantenna. I can hear an obvious difference when I change the power supplies, th
- /archives//html/TenTec/2003-12/msg00665.html (10,262 bytes)
- 4. Re: [TenTec] Argonaut 505 - The Answer (score: 1)
- Author: "JAMES T HANLON" <knjhanlon@msn.com>
- Date: Thu, 18 Dec 2003 12:13:16 -0700
- I want to thank everyone who replied to my message for help with hum on my Argonaut 505. In retrospect I feel a good bit like Click and Clack, those well known NPR Auto Mechanics, with their Weekly P
- /archives//html/TenTec/2003-12/msg00716.html (10,673 bytes)
- 5. Re: [TenTec] Argonaut 505 - The Answer (score: 1)
- Author: "JAMES T HANLON" <knjhanlon@msn.com>
- Date: Thu, 18 Dec 2003 13:01:01 -0700
- Alan, It appears to be a magnetic field problem. When I operate the rig from a battery and bring my soldering gun near the top center, it completely annihilates the output. Besides moving the power s
- /archives//html/TenTec/2003-12/msg00720.html (7,860 bytes)
- 6. [TenTec] Re: EMI (was Argonaut 505 - The Answer) (score: 1)
- Author: "JAMES T HANLON" <knjhanlon@msn.com>
- Date: Thu, 18 Dec 2003 15:20:46 -0700
- Alan, For now I will take the easy way out and keep the transceiver away from AC fields. I'll bring a piece of steel down from the attic next time I'm up there and lay it on top of the transceiver be
- /archives//html/TenTec/2003-12/msg00728.html (8,502 bytes)
- 7. Re: [TenTec] crisp handheld mic (score: 1)
- Author: "JAMES HANLON" <knjhanlon@msn.com>
- Date: Wed, 10 Mar 2004 10:08:45 -0700
- Modern D-104's use a "ceramic" element rather than a "crystal" element and they are not bothered by heat. Jim, W8KGI _______________________________________________ TenTec mailing list TenTec@contest
- /archives//html/TenTec/2004-03/msg00234.html (8,188 bytes)
- 8. Re: [TenTec] 80m antenna suggestion (score: 1)
- Author: "JAMES HANLON" <knjhanlon@msn.com>
- Date: Fri, 12 Mar 2004 10:34:29 -0700
- Chris, For 20 years when I lived in Columbus, Ohio, I used a 67 foot, center fed "hertz" with open-wire feed line and a tuner. The feed line was long enough to reach from the center of the antenna to
- /archives//html/TenTec/2004-03/msg00299.html (11,031 bytes)
- 9. Re: [TenTec] 80m antenna suggestion (score: 1)
- Author: "JAMES HANLON" <knjhanlon@msn.com>
- Date: Sat, 13 Mar 2004 19:39:26 -0700
- Rick, You got me interested, so I fired up EZNEC and tried analyzing an antenna such as you describe. I modeled it as having four sides, each 66 feet long, and 30 feet above a "medium" ground (conduc
- /archives//html/TenTec/2004-03/msg00381.html (11,842 bytes)
- 10. Re: [TenTec] 80 meter loops (score: 1)
- Author: "JAMES HANLON" <knjhanlon@msn.com>
- Date: Mon, 15 Mar 2004 11:08:19 -0700
- Noel, I would suggest that you either 1) take the ARRL Antenna Modeling Course, as I am doing right now, or 2) get someone who is a competent antenna modeler to do some analysis on the antenna variat
- /archives//html/TenTec/2004-03/msg00431.html (8,974 bytes)
- 11. Re: [TenTec] Capture area (was 80 meter loops) (score: 1)
- Author: "JAMES HANLON" <knjhanlon@msn.com>
- Date: Sat, 20 Mar 2004 08:56:43 -0700
- Jason, An end-fed antenna that is an integral multiple of 1/2 wavelength will present a very high impedance. An end-fed antenna that is 1/4, 3/4, 5/4 etc wavelengths long will present a low impedance
- /archives//html/TenTec/2004-03/msg00634.html (8,948 bytes)
- 12. Fw: [TenTec] Capture area (was 80 meter loops) (score: 1)
- Author: "JAMES HANLON" <knjhanlon@msn.com>
- Date: Sat, 20 Mar 2004 12:09:56 -0700
- Jason, For some reason this message bounced when I sent it directly to you so I'll send it via the Ten Tec reflector. My apologies to the other guys. Jim _____________________________________________
- /archives//html/TenTec/2004-03/msg00643.html (16,498 bytes)
- 13. Re: [TenTec] The problem with directly end fed wires (score: 1)
- Author: "JAMES HANLON" <knjhanlon@msn.com>
- Date: Tue, 23 Mar 2004 12:14:31 -0700
- For more than 40 of the 51 years I've been licensed, my antenna has been a "Center-Fed Zepp" ala what Bob described. For about 20 of those years I lived on a city-sized lot in Columbus, Ohio, and the
- /archives//html/TenTec/2004-03/msg00682.html (11,718 bytes)
- 14. [TenTec] BPL, Harmful Interference (score: 1)
- Author: "JAMES HANLON" <knjhanlon@msn.com>
- Date: Wed, 7 Apr 2004 10:36:29 -0600
- Guys, I'd appreciate some help in finding the definition of "harmful interference" per 47 C. F. R. paragraph 15.5(b). I'm working on my letter to the FCC and my congressional representatives. Thanks,
- /archives//html/TenTec/2004-04/msg00055.html (6,593 bytes)
- 15. Re: [TenTec] 450 ohm Feed Line (score: 1)
- Author: "JAMES HANLON" <knjhanlon@msn.com>
- Date: Wed, 14 Apr 2004 23:11:07 -0600
- Just remember when you are using open-wire feedline that you are not matching the feedline to the feed-point impedance of the antenna and therefore you are running a high swr on the feedline. That's
- /archives//html/TenTec/2004-04/msg00182.html (9,298 bytes)
- 16. Re: [TenTec] 450 Ohm feedline (score: 1)
- Author: "JAMES HANLON" <knjhanlon@msn.com>
- Date: Fri, 16 Apr 2004 10:15:37 -0600
- I'm an old Bell Labs engineer, and I can recall being taught in our "CDT" (Communications Development Training) courses that the pairs were twisted to cut down on the cross talk from other pairs bund
- /archives//html/TenTec/2004-04/msg00211.html (8,632 bytes)
- 17. Re: [TenTec] New Product Announcement (score: 1)
- Author: "JAMES HANLON" <knjhanlon@msn.com>
- Date: Sat, 17 Apr 2004 13:19:00 -0600
- Thank you Hashifisti Scratchi (Al) Jim, W8KGI _______________________________________________ TenTec mailing list TenTec@contesting.com http://lists.contesting.com/mailman/listinfo/tentec
- /archives//html/TenTec/2004-04/msg00247.html (7,500 bytes)
- 18. Re: [TenTec] 450 Ohm feedline tuners (score: 1)
- Author: "JAMES HANLON" <knjhanlon@msn.com>
- Date: Sat, 17 Apr 2004 13:51:51 -0600
- Guys, Any older ARRL Handbook will give you information on building your own "antenna tuner" for balanced transmission lines. Perhaps the most simple example would be a parallel-tuned circuit resonan
- /archives//html/TenTec/2004-04/msg00248.html (11,186 bytes)
- 19. Re: [TenTec] Bush behind BPL... (score: 1)
- Author: "JAMES HANLON" <knjhanlon@msn.com>
- Date: Wed, 28 Apr 2004 09:24:33 -0600
- "If you would like to send a comment to President Bush about this technology speech, the link shown will direct you to the web site where you can file one. the category is Science and Technology. Pl
- /archives//html/TenTec/2004-04/msg00563.html (8,371 bytes)
- 20. [TenTec] Skywave BPL? (score: 1)
- Author: "JAMES HANLON" <knjhanlon@msn.com>
- Date: Fri, 7 May 2004 10:22:03 -0600
- Guys, Yesterday and today I fired up one of my boatanchor, general coverage receivers, a Hammarlund SP600, and I am hearing a whole string of "modulated" carriers between about 22 and 27 mHz that cou
- /archives//html/TenTec/2004-05/msg00135.html (9,182 bytes)
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