Don't bother with the amplifier and impedance-matching transformer, OM. Jupiter's input impedance is high enough [47K-ohms] to match the D104 microphone. Any post that refers to 47K as "low impedance
Barry, N1EU, wrote: "I assume the hang is a delay before the onset of AGC decay". Absolutely correct! I was present at the creation, but have since retired from Ten-Tec. Do not however ask me for any
Rick wrote, "Doug wasn't doing the software and that's where the work is now". ** Do some of you guys make this stuff up? ** In the period before I retired from Ten-Tec engineering last July, Doug Sm
Quoting Kd4GT: "....from the spec sheet: "Two types of receive preamplifiers: Both preamp descriptions read like marketing Bull.... to me. Preamp 1 is simply not plausible. Preamp 2 description is so
I thank W3ULS for his kind words, but my contribution to Argonaaut V was negligibly small. 73, Allan. _______________________________________________ TenTec mailing list TenTec@contesting.com http://
WB1EHL, John, wrote, "This is less radical than my original thought, which was to penalize high speed CW operation by limiting the number of hours of operation as afunction of speed. The point could
Bernard wrote, "The latest information from the TenTec website may indicate that there has been some slip in delivery from mid Feb/ Mar until late March. Anyoneknow what happened?" What happened is t
Bruce and others, Below perhaps 12 meters, atmospheric noise absolutely overwhelms the sensitivity of modern receivers. By that, I mean that scientific studies by CCIR have shown conlusively that atm
Yuri, K3BU/C6AYB (great mnemonic for that C6 call, Yuri!) wrote, Does it mean that you can only win with Orion? How about congratulations to me placing on the top of NA Low Power category, using, get
Yuri wrote, in part, "...As a response I get "imaginary reality" and the above crap...." Dear Yuri, The "imaginary reality" expression that I used, I cut and pasted from one of YOUR testy comments. I
The ProII Bandscope is quite superior to the ORION bandscope - no contest. ORION's receiver performance is quite superior to that of the PROII. Your choice, Dave! 73 de w1AEL, Allan in Sevierville, T
Dick, N5XRD, wrote, "Has anyone tried the new SGC SG-211 tuner with the Jupiter ... Or any of the SGC tuner products?? " I used an older version of this Smartuner with Jupiter and other rigs. It work
Garry Green at Ten-Tec is the expert on Hercules service, and very helpful. The first line of attack should absolutely be to check out the power supplies. Garry has a fixture for just that Purpose, b
Bob, the point about the age of the Corsair design is well-taken, BUT the different performance on a band-by-band basis makes me suspect the band heterodyne crystals and/or any components of them whi
Rick wrote, "Gentlemen, these are the important things which have changed and the issues we need to start spending our brain cycles on!" This fifty-year ham agrees with Rick, but I will contribute my
Al, as I understand those words, "duplicate" refers to one copy and "replicate" refers to an indefinite number of copies. Similarly, I believe that "excuse" is transitive and "recuse" is reflexive, t
W4EF wrote, "....the ferrite material in the KLM balun to overheat beyond its Curie temperature. Although a postive result from this test wouldn't necessarily entail permanent degradation of the balu
Catfish wrote: ..."the wider the space the better", but I urge a more moderate approach. Getting the lines more than a few electrical degrees apart will allow them to radiate some of the power we wou