- 181. [TenTec] Mike for Ten Tec OMNI V? (score: 1)
- Author: rohre@arlut.utexas.edu (Stuart Rohre)
- Date: Mon Mar 17 16:39:08 2003
- Heil makes some good headphone and boom mike combos, and some are not too expensive. The Ten Tec desk mike would be great and was available as a kit at one time; it is assembled sold at $99.95 I beli
- /archives//html/TenTec/2003-03/msg00698.html (6,903 bytes)
- 182. [TenTec] Field Day GOTA Station (score: 1)
- Author: rohre@arlut.utexas.edu (Stuart Rohre)
- Date: Mon Mar 17 16:54:08 2003
- Since I never exceed 13 wpm, my Scout CW has never showed any drift. Also, I tend to send short CW bursts, and give it time to "breath" and reset the VFO. Just like they said to do, in the manual. 73
- /archives//html/TenTec/2003-03/msg00699.html (7,785 bytes)
- 183. [TenTec] Scout story (score: 1)
- Author: rohre@arlut.utexas.edu (Stuart Rohre)
- Date: Mon Mar 17 16:59:12 2003
- Great Story Alan, one that I too have experienced in Field Days for several years, placing well up in the rankings in our class, with no. 4 in ARRL rank being our best to date. Of course, we were als
- /archives//html/TenTec/2003-03/msg00700.html (6,551 bytes)
- 184. [TenTec] Argo V questions (score: 1)
- Author: rohre@arlut.utexas.edu (Stuart Rohre)
- Date: Mon Mar 17 19:58:47 2003
- The review in the April CQ magazine addresses the key input and paddle input connections. You can turn off the internal keyer in the menu, and plug an external keyer into the radio a number of ways.
- /archives//html/TenTec/2003-03/msg00704.html (7,373 bytes)
- 185. [TenTec] Corsair II going deaf! (score: 1)
- Author: rohre@arlut.utexas.edu (Stuart Rohre)
- Date: Tue Mar 18 15:39:40 2003
- Indeed, if there is an aux antenna switch, or contacts on the linear relay to ground out the receive line during linear use, you might have corroded contacts in need of cleaning. Caig products such a
- /archives//html/TenTec/2003-03/msg00717.html (7,774 bytes)
- 186. [TenTec] Field Day GOTA Station - Scout Drifting! (score: 1)
- Author: rohre@arlut.utexas.edu (Stuart Rohre)
- Date: Wed Mar 19 21:30:50 2003
- The two fixes that came out of Ten Tec over the years involved changing caps in the frequency control and adding a fan to the heat sink if you ran high power, (50 watts). 73, Stuart K5KVH
- /archives//html/TenTec/2003-03/msg00744.html (7,177 bytes)
- 187. [TenTec] Scout headphones (score: 1)
- Author: rohre@arlut.utexas.edu (Stuart Rohre)
- Date: Wed Mar 19 21:33:53 2003
- The cure for the hardness of the Trimm and similar old headphones is to go to Walgreen's or other chain drug store, (chemist shop for our U.K. readers), and get two of the round flat sponges sold for
- /archives//html/TenTec/2003-03/msg00745.html (7,536 bytes)
- 188. [TenTec] Lumitex Fiber Optic Lighting Home Page for possible Ten Tecold display replacements (score: 1)
- Author: rohre@arlut.utexas.edu (Stuart Rohre)
- Date: Wed Mar 19 21:40:17 2003
- The subject of backlighting for old frequency displays comes up, and former Ten Tec source is not available. Maybe these folks will have something of use.: 73, Stuart K5KVH (no connection, just was g
- /archives//html/TenTec/2003-03/msg00746.html (6,874 bytes)
- 189. [TenTec] Argosy II problem (score: 1)
- Author: rohre@arlut.utexas.edu (Stuart Rohre)
- Date: Mon Mar 24 21:39:08 2003
- Make sure your band switch contacts are clean and not acting as diode detectors! If cleaning does not fix it, (Is there an alternate antenna switch)? then, put a BC tuned series coil and cap trap in
- /archives//html/TenTec/2003-03/msg00834.html (7,021 bytes)
- 190. [TenTec] Argosy II fix (score: 1)
- Author: rohre@arlut.utexas.edu (Stuart Rohre)
- Date: Tue Mar 25 20:01:50 2003
- Great Joe, glad you isolated it to the switch. Time to get a Caig Laboratories kit of De Oxit products and clean those contacts! Sometimes without opening a switch, briskly rotating it thru all posit
- /archives//html/TenTec/2003-03/msg00855.html (6,610 bytes)
- 191. [TenTec] Ten-Tec Model 200 VFO FS (score: 1)
- Author: rohre@arlut.utexas.edu (Stuart Rohre)
- Date: Fri Mar 28 16:21:23 2003
- Chuck, if the elastic was melted, then the electrolytic caps may also have been baked dry, and might need replacing before powering the VFO up. 73, Stuart K5KVH
- /archives//html/TenTec/2003-03/msg00933.html (7,879 bytes)
- 192. [TenTec] Dumb question about breaker (score: 1)
- Author: rohre@arlut.utexas.edu (Stuart Rohre)
- Date: Mon Feb 3 18:51:33 2003
- Tim, That is correct, works the same as a fuse, except you can recycle it, if it trips. Remember to install it close to the power supply to adequately protect the wiring to the rig, just in case insu
- /archives//html/TenTec/2003-02/msg00132.html (7,282 bytes)
- 193. [TenTec] Argonaut V Needs an RF Gain Control (score: 1)
- Author: rohre@arlut.utexas.edu (Stuart Rohre)
- Date: Mon Feb 3 19:49:36 2003
- The Ten Tec Scout does not have an RF gain control, and I have not missed it. But, there is a simple mod of changing a fixed gain resistor for a pot that will fix that, and same could be done for any
- /archives//html/TenTec/2003-02/msg00141.html (6,819 bytes)
- 194. [TenTec] Public Opinion (score: 1)
- Author: rohre@arlut.utexas.edu (Stuart Rohre)
- Date: Tue Feb 4 15:00:14 2003
- Bob, The devil is in the details! TT has acknowledged software issues are holding up the Orion. That is common with most new products in this world. In the meantime, the Argonaut V is selling like ho
- /archives//html/TenTec/2003-02/msg00193.html (9,481 bytes)
- 195. [TenTec] Help this is a real question and not Orion (score: 1)
- Author: rohre@arlut.utexas.edu (Stuart Rohre)
- Date: Wed Feb 5 16:02:35 2003
- Pete, Almost surely, if this is a series pass power transistor circuit regulator, And if the power regulator transistor is not shorted; it is driven by another transistor, and that smaller transistor
- /archives//html/TenTec/2003-02/msg00269.html (7,942 bytes)
- 196. [TenTec] non-TT QRP HF Txcvr FS? anti-ebay! (score: 1)
- Author: rohre@arlut.utexas.edu (Stuart Rohre)
- Date: Fri Feb 7 19:02:44 2003
- Art, use google.com search engine and search on keywords "Icom reflector" or whatever brand name the rig is. Likely you will find another reflector like TT to list it on. 73, Stuart K5KVH
- /archives//html/TenTec/2003-02/msg00341.html (7,670 bytes)
- 197. [TenTec] Scout 555 noise floor. (score: 1)
- Author: rohre@arlut.utexas.edu (Stuart Rohre)
- Date: Wed Feb 12 15:20:22 2003
- Hi Ed, the S4 to S5 noise level is not normal in a Scout. How clean is your DC source? I take it you have operated on differing power supplies in testing, since you experienced it mobile. Check the v
- /archives//html/TenTec/2003-02/msg00532.html (6,767 bytes)
- 198. [TenTec] Scout 555 noise floor. (score: 1)
- Author: rohre@arlut.utexas.edu (Stuart Rohre)
- Date: Wed Feb 12 17:47:42 2003
- Another thing hams often overlook, is to twist the heavy conductors used to go from a DC supply to a transceiver to reduce any chance of stray noise pickup via that path. Although I do not believe it
- /archives//html/TenTec/2003-02/msg00538.html (6,914 bytes)
- 199. [TenTec] Scout 555 coax jumpers. (score: 1)
- Author: rohre@arlut.utexas.edu (Stuart Rohre)
- Date: Fri Feb 14 18:54:33 2003
- Those are RG 174 coax, and a commercial board connector. Might have to order from ten tec, as you likely do not need 100 feet of the coax and the connectors are stocked by big distributors with minim
- /archives//html/TenTec/2003-02/msg00573.html (7,701 bytes)
- 200. [TenTec] Scout 555 coax jumpers. (score: 1)
- Author: rohre@arlut.utexas.edu (Stuart Rohre)
- Date: Mon Feb 17 12:14:07 2003
- Ed, Get ahold of the Newark and Allied Electronics distributor catalogs. I think the connectors were an Amphenol design which is now a Tyco company. Their web site was pretty complex last I looked up
- /archives//html/TenTec/2003-02/msg00648.html (7,616 bytes)
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