Arrrgh! Dallas time chips?? I ran into this on my Paragon II. Ordered two chips on eBay, and received junk that had older date codes than what I was trying to replace from idiot Chinese vendors with
Well, I had a few opened up, but it is not a "chip," but a chip encased in a plastic case on a DIP header. The IC inside does have a pin for the external battery, but in the module the pin is bent ba
Hi Clayton Let me research this.... option 1 adds the individual lock for both A and B VFO. I'm too worried about the button labels for the Option 1 changes, I can use a cheat sheet for that. I know
The Omni VI uses a common lithium button cell in a holder. East to change. Stores the time and band stack register information. The Paragon II stores the same info in the Dallas Ram Chip. I am guessi
Still looking... ROM chip must be from a Option I. Option III, where the boards and cables are changed probably will not work unless I can locate those parts as well. Would also consider a junker/tec
I found a file folder with some manuals for Ten Tec gear that I was selling off... in one of the folders I discovered I had purchased one of their active antenna kits several years' back, stashed it
I haven't used this radio since it was built for a product review several years ago. It was used to make two contacts, and never used mobile. It comes with the microphone, mounting bracket, and the o
Unit is not for sale! A quick bench test shows low power output, while the RX is fine. Figures, it only had about 1/2 of use. I may offer this again later as a tech special if I can't locate a replac
I got mine from W5CIA.com (for my 705 mic.) Same price as TenTec was asking. I am slowly suspecting they dumped a lot of old support inventory. I read a post from someone who needed a part for a RX42
A 45 MHz IF is not the end of the world.... my first choice would be to use a higher end Dongle with 12 bit resolution (cheaper Dongles are only 8 bit.) They'll at least give you a usable, if not fan
Solar activity can indeed cause this to happen. I've seen dead bands, and background noise levels peaking to S5 or higher on many occasions over the past decades. Simply switching between a resistive
*"I know that in the 1950's Collins did actually use a separate blanking detection receiver that ran on 9 mhz with its own antenna. I never used one but it must have been good."* The KWM-2 blanker ra
Rick I have two of the roofing filters kits from Inrad; they are connected in series... since I have the basic Omni VI, I only have one NARROW filter selection on the front panel... so I have one of
* The problem with placing two filters directly in series is, you will drop about 6dB of gain, assuming they are narrow filters. This needs to be compensated for with a low gain, low distortion amp.
I'm sure they had stock when they started the summer sale; but I think they were swamped in orders, way beyond what they had expected. That's probably a good thing, and might lead to more investment
*I don't care for the idea of Y-connector. I have a 50 Ohm Splitter (-3dB) that I built while working in the lab for Rhode und Schwarz.* Clifton Labs sells a small splitter kit for about five bucks.