- 101. [TenTec] Cross band split with Omni VI (score: 1)
- Author: Ken Brown <ken.d.brown@hawaiiantel.net>
- Date: Tue, 26 Sep 2006 21:32:45 -1000
- I have experimented with my Omni VI, trying to get it to operate cross band split. I have not found any combination of bands that it will work on for CW transmitting. It seems like the time needed fo
- /archives//html/TenTec/2006-09/msg00621.html (6,856 bytes)
- 102. Re: [TenTec] Omni VI+ (score: 1)
- Author: Ken Brown <ken.d.brown@hawaiiantel.net>
- Date: Thu, 28 Sep 2006 18:02:04 -1000
- Hi Don, Omni VI+, This rig has the model 220 filter (2.4kc) filter in one of the optional 9 mc slots. What is the advantage of this filter over the "standard" one? The "standard" 9 MHz filter in the
- /archives//html/TenTec/2006-09/msg00648.html (8,363 bytes)
- 103. Re: [TenTec] Argosy Finals (score: 1)
- Author: Ken Brown <ken.d.brown@hawaiiantel.net>
- Date: Sat, 30 Sep 2006 21:57:43 -1000
- Not owning an Argosy or an Argosy manual, I do not know the part number for that transistor, so I have no part number to try to cross reference. If I did know the transistor part number, I might be a
- /archives//html/TenTec/2006-10/msg00000.html (6,517 bytes)
- 104. Re: [TenTec] Omni VI+ Keying Question (score: 1)
- Author: Ken Brown <ken.d.brown@hawaiiantel.net>
- Date: Sun, 01 Oct 2006 19:29:31 -1000
- Hi Don, Some of the likely causes of the RELAY line being grounded all the time are: Relay K1 contacts welded together by some previous accident, C14 or C8 failed in a short circuit mode, Q16 failed
- /archives//html/TenTec/2006-10/msg00034.html (8,010 bytes)
- 105. Re: [TenTec] #218 filter (score: 1)
- Author: Ken Brown <ken.d.brown@hawaiiantel.net>
- Date: Tue, 03 Oct 2006 07:21:42 -1000
- The easiest way to check a filter (if having the expensive lab equipment is easy) is to sweep it with a spectrum analyzer / tracking generator. If you don't have access to one of those ( not the kind
- /archives//html/TenTec/2006-10/msg00072.html (10,982 bytes)
- 106. Re: [TenTec] Topband: Fw: Noise Limiter Help - Thanks (score: 1)
- Author: Ken Brown <ken.d.brown@hawaiiantel.net>
- Date: Thu, 05 Oct 2006 18:33:54 -1000
- Hi John and group, Since you brought up the topic of noise Blankers/Limiters/Cancelers/Reducers, I thought I would post this to the list. Originally it was a response to a long thread on another refl
- /archives//html/TenTec/2006-10/msg00143.html (9,694 bytes)
- 107. [TenTec] Noise Limiters/Blankers/Cancellers/Reducers (score: 1)
- Author: Ken Brown <ken.d.brown@hawaiiantel.net>
- Date: Thu, 05 Oct 2006 18:47:49 -1000
- Hi John and group, Since you brought up the topic of noise Blankers/Limiters/Cancelers/Reducers, I thought I would post this to the list. Originally it was a response to a long thread on another refl
- /archives//html/TenTec/2006-10/msg00145.html (9,551 bytes)
- 108. Re: [TenTec] Argonaut V and an amplifier (score: 1)
- Author: Ken Brown <ken.d.brown@hawaiiantel.net>
- Date: Tue, 10 Oct 2006 19:45:38 -1000
- Wow! I've misunderstood this for years. I thought the the ALC voltage was produced by the amplifier, and fed to the exciter to limit drive. I never knew that the exciter generated an ALC voltage to c
- /archives//html/TenTec/2006-10/msg00315.html (8,994 bytes)
- 109. Re: [TenTec] Omni 6+ calibration (score: 1)
- Author: Ken Brown <ken.d.brown@hawaiiantel.net>
- Date: Tue, 24 Oct 2006 20:19:37 -1000
- The receive and transmit frequencies of an Omni VI are determined by three oscillators. The oscillators are the VFO (called the 5.0 - 5.5 MHz PLL) , the band select oscillator (called the XTAL OSC) a
- /archives//html/TenTec/2006-10/msg00602.html (8,638 bytes)
- 110. Re: [TenTec] UCW and LCW (score: 1)
- Author: Ken Brown <ken.d.brown@hawaiiantel.net>
- Date: Fri, 27 Oct 2006 15:20:46 -1000
- On Upper Sideband an audio note is heard when a signal is ABOVE the "effective BFO frequency" and in order to bring that note to zero beat, one must tune upward, lowering the pitch of the audio note
- /archives//html/TenTec/2006-10/msg00653.html (11,103 bytes)
- 111. Re: [TenTec] UCW and LCW (score: 1)
- Author: Ken Brown <ken.d.brown@hawaiiantel.net>
- Date: Fri, 27 Oct 2006 16:47:13 -1000
- Hi Craig, It is on the upper side. That is why as you tune higher up, it becomes less on the upper side and the audio note gets lower. When the signal is on the upper side (higher frequency side) of
- /archives//html/TenTec/2006-10/msg00656.html (9,083 bytes)
- 112. Re: [TenTec] UCW and LCW (score: 1)
- Author: Ken Brown <ken.d.brown@hawaiiantel.net>
- Date: Fri, 27 Oct 2006 17:05:03 -1000
- This feature of modern rigs further confuses the issue. In SSB service, the dial (or digital) frequency readout indicates the frequency of a carrier that would be zero beat. Signals either side of t
- /archives//html/TenTec/2006-10/msg00657.html (10,788 bytes)
- 113. Re: [TenTec] Vertical radial question (score: 1)
- Author: Ken Brown <ken.d.brown@hawaiiantel.net>
- Date: Fri, 03 Nov 2006 13:03:41 -1000
- More importantly, the 1 dB could make the difference between being heard but not copied, and being heard AND copied. Or not in the log versus in the log. DE N6KB ____________________________________
- /archives//html/TenTec/2006-11/msg00053.html (8,277 bytes)
- 114. Re: [TenTec] SS last weekend (score: 1)
- Author: Ken Brown <ken.d.brown@hawaiiantel.net>
- Date: Tue, 07 Nov 2006 08:28:54 -1000
- The ferrite is keeping RF picked up by to headphone cable from getting into the electronics and causing the thump, right? So then is the Orion not designed to work around strong EM fields, without ha
- /archives//html/TenTec/2006-11/msg00141.html (8,146 bytes)
- 115. [TenTec] RF susceptibility (score: 1)
- Author: Ken Brown <ken.d.brown@hawaiiantel.net>
- Date: Tue, 07 Nov 2006 16:15:16 -1000
- Hi Bill (and group), Yes, you are right about changing the subject line. I have changed it in this response. Many of us have limited space for our ham shack and antennas. This often results in our tr
- /archives//html/TenTec/2006-11/msg00149.html (12,664 bytes)
- 116. Re: [TenTec] New Radio - Day One (score: 1)
- Author: Ken Brown <ken.d.brown@hawaiiantel.net>
- Date: Sat, 18 Nov 2006 10:20:09 -1000
- Hi Dennis, I also enjoyed your post regarding your first day operating your new Orion II. I will not include your entire post in my response though. Thanks, DE N6KB __________________________________
- /archives//html/TenTec/2006-11/msg00241.html (7,576 bytes)
- 117. Re: [TenTec] Omni VI info (score: 1)
- Author: Ken Brown <ken.d.brown@hawaiiantel.net>
- Date: Wed, 22 Nov 2006 07:24:47 -1000
- Hi Steve, Here is a description of the IF filtering schemes in the various versions of Omni VI: http://mywebpages.comcast.net/w8kc/n6kb.htm I have also commented on the In Rad roofing filter modifica
- /archives//html/TenTec/2006-11/msg00317.html (7,333 bytes)
- 118. Re: [TenTec] Omni VI first impressions (score: 1)
- Author: Ken Brown <ken.d.brown@hawaiiantel.net>
- Date: Sun, 26 Nov 2006 10:03:52 -1000
- Hi Steve, The variation in display brightness is a feature. Key up thump? Not in my Omni VI. A very interesting problem. Since it happens on all bands, I would guess that the 15.3 MHz PBT oscillator
- /archives//html/TenTec/2006-11/msg00370.html (9,760 bytes)
- 119. [TenTec] Shields in Omni VI (score: 1)
- Author: Ken Brown <ken.d.brown@hawaiiantel.net>
- Date: Sun, 26 Nov 2006 16:01:47 -1000
- Hi Steve, The photos in the manual for my Omni VI do not show any of the shielding in place. I was wondering if I was confused and that the cover plates I remembered are in my Paragon and not in the
- /archives//html/TenTec/2006-11/msg00390.html (7,701 bytes)
- 120. Re: [TenTec] Shields in Omni VI (score: 1)
- Author: Ken Brown <ken.d.brown@hawaiiantel.net>
- Date: Mon, 27 Nov 2006 07:28:51 -1000
- Hi Steve, That the pitch changes suggests that the loading of the different filters is changing the frequency of a spurious oscillation, somewhere. If it is a harmonic of the 15.3 MHz PBT oscillator,
- /archives//html/TenTec/2006-11/msg00408.html (10,876 bytes)
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