Aloha from Hawaii, The Merrie Monarch Hula Festival, from Hilo on the Big Island of Hawaii. Only once a year.....see: http://www.thehawaiichannel.com/ And follow the links to the Merrie Monarch. Toni
The event begins each of the next three evening, Hawaii time 6 PM, or 0400 UTC; lasts until about 1000Z each evening. Streaming video also at: http://www.thehawaiichannel.com/ Again, something to do
That's all that it was, but, oh....what it could have been! "It"-- the package TT advised of last week which was on the way out here via Fed Ex. The wait continues............ 73, Jim KH7M
While waiting for hardware....... Am passing time reading the .pdf version of the Orion manual downloaded from the TT web site. I have a Henry linear, so is not a QSK amp such as TT sells. I would li
Left out a point: The T/R relays in a non-QSK amp typically require some 12 or so milliseconds to switch and settle from any contact "bouncing"; so RF must be held back from the Orion over to the lin
If there were one to be found on this island (I don't have any scope). And, of course, one needs an Orion to measure, hi. Maybe I'll rcv one in a couple weeks, or so. Perhaps there is already an Ori
QSK Menu and 87A But, but, but..... that is not the end of the transmit cycle of concern in my situation. It is the beginning. With key down, presumably, instantly, the Orion sends the relay signal t
Grant sent along, in part: Will try that in the morning (HST, which means, 7 AM here is 1 PM at TT, hi). Will call AFTER my second cup of coffee. The problem I "seem" to have is with the open frame r
Grant suggested calling Ten Tec for answers; excellent thought, so I did this morning. Good news, for us non-TT linear owning folks: Had a nice chat with Scott, who of course did not have the detaile
Bill, You understood incorrectly! His response was to get rid of the -5 switch because of it's apparent non=reliability! And, yes, he said some users of the -5 have had success for years, just happe
Well, you are inquiring into the FUTURE! Charlotte fest occurs NEXT weekend. Who knows what will be on display? BTW, have you been following any of the Beta Orion testers web sites? For example: htt
Hmmmm........ The ARRL lab came out with IP's well below the Ten Tec specs; seems odd. TT spec is +4 dBm for the third order IM intercept point, at least that is what the ARRL lab test reports TT has
Stuart, K5KVH, wrote, in part: Thank you for the lead, Stuart. I have just been there and read the complete method, procedure and examples of how they do the 2nd and 3 rd order IP tests. I was shocke
Ron, WN3VAW, wrote in part: Well, the important "others" in this case are the engineers within the Ten Tec engineering department: Doug Smith, KF6DX; Jack Burchfield, K4JU; and Gary Barbour, engineer
Stuart, K5KVH, wrote, in part: Well, if the ARRL cannot afford to do an accurate test, using the correct and industry standard method, then, I believe they have no business substituting some other me
George, W5YR, sent me the following in a private e-mail: I did not, but after looking thru some back issues, found their work in the July/August 2002 issue (I have a short memory!). Sure enough, a ra
Read Ed Hare's piece in the July/August, 2002, QEX, pgs. 50 and 51, along with the surrounding paper by Doug Smith, pgs. 46 - 52. Many sources of inaccuracies are discussed and admitted. 73, Jim KH7M
Aloha to all following this topic, Ed Hare has written a very detailed and well presented reply to my posts and concerns, thank you Ed. And I accept your criticism of my "low blow"; was not intended
HI again Ed, And thanks for your note, in which you wrote, partly: subscription Ed, I hope he does not take too long; a couple of the folks out here had trouble being accepted! One at last got subscr
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