Author: Scott Shepard <scottsheppard@videotron.ca>
Date: Sat, 22 Feb 2014 14:55:27 -0500
I have recently acquired a 1st generation Corsair to go along with my Corsair II and other TT gear. I enjoyed rebuilding the pto and must say it is a wonderful rig. For some reason, I like it better
I guess it was a year ago I put in a DDS replacement for the PTO. Rock solid. Dual VFOs, speed sensitive tuning, all kinds of goodies. I took it out and the analog PTO back in. Yep, it didnt have the
I remember when digital frequency readouts (the kind using an electronic counter, not the kind on a R-390) started appearing on ham gear. Most people (myself included) just had to have it. We never n
I know. As an aficionado of vintage equipment I agree in spirt. But on SSB it really is delightful to talk with people who are actually on frequency, a rarity with vintage gear but the norm now with
Just like a refrigerator or a CD player... Best regards - Bry Carling af4k _______________________________________________ TenTec mailing list TenTec@contesting.com http://lists.contesting.com/mailma
How does a digital readout help you to get on the same frequency any better than an analog one ? If you can't hear when a human voice sounds natural then a digital won't help. Best regards - Bry Carl
i have an omni 5 a very good radio but when the boys first got them and punched in their favorite qrg they would be off by several cycles and the tentac haters would come out of the woodwork. now wha
I had a Flex owner tell me I was 13 hertz off frequency. I should have asked him to help me convert that to cycles so I could adjust my radio. Ed ________________________________ From: Brian Carling
My experience is that with modern equipment, when people say they are on 3895 they actually are, +/- not much and they actually stay there. Land yourself on that number and you've got it. With older
i am 72 years old i never accepted the hertz thing!!! bob k0wtz all things are possible in Christ Jesus our savior Subject: Re: [TenTec] In praise of older technology To: "Discussion of Ten-Tec Equip
Oh thats a hoot! Last fall, I had an old Drake TR-3 on the air. Those three 12JB6s were screaming, plopping out almost 200 watts into the antenna. Long story short. I answered a guys CQ on 40 SSB. We
And then there is the unused OFFSET knob and OFFSET SELECT switches or RIT and XIT on other equipment which along with SPOT or ZERO BEAT were the way to NET on CW or keep from chasing each other up o
I once worked a Cuban station on CW who was using homebrew tube equipment. He was drifting pretty bad (probably just turned his radio on) and he had nice chirp. Over the period of about a half hour w
Hey, We have a lot of the same equipment. I'm not the guy complaining about others. I'm the offending party. I have a lot of experience being off frequency. For years, maybe a decade I was in regular
As part of my collection, I have Drake 2B receiver and a Gonset GSB100 phasing exciter. One night I wound up in a round table with a bunch of HiFi SSB aficionados 0n 40 meters. These guys were runnin
This reminds me of being in Air Force MARS when I was stationed in Japan. It was a 2m net, and I had the Icom IC-21; a very popular 2m FM-only transceiver at that time. During one of the nets, the ne
There are some on hi-fi sideband that I am not sure they are talking or their stomach is making noise. As part of my collection, I have Drake 2B receiver and a Gonset GSB100 phasing exciter. One nig
Author: Scott Shepard <scottsheppard@videotron.ca>
Date: Sat, 22 Feb 2014 20:47:36 -0500
All very good points...I am not all too worried about a few hz either way...and once warmed up, the pto is not bad at all...it is a hobby after all. I remember being on a net one time when an old tim
Surely that wasn't on SSB? Best regards - Bry Carling _______________________________________________ TenTec mailing list TenTec@contesting.com http://lists.contesting.com/mailman/listinfo/tentec
When I became active again, in the mid-1980s, I picked up an analog Century 21 at a hamfest (I thought it was "modern," and compared to my DX-20 and NC-303 it was) and used it in the NTS traffic nets