- 1. Re: [TenTec] Gummy Feet (score: 1)
- Author: Bwana Bob <wb2vuf@qsl.net>
- Date: Sun, 14 Jan 2007 18:11:12 -0500
- I haven't had gummy feet, but I do know that the plasticizers in certain rubber formulations will attack and soften the finish on furniture. The clear feet work well, but I still wouldn't trust them
- /archives//html/TenTec/2007-01/msg00382.html (9,985 bytes)
- 2. Re: [TenTec] code speed (score: 1)
- Author: Bwana Bob <wb2vuf@qsl.net>
- Date: Sun, 14 Jan 2007 18:14:22 -0500
- Don't know if there was an "official" speed, but K2VX, who had post war mil experience in Greenland, once told us that the practical speed for ops using straight keys under field conditions and with
- /archives//html/TenTec/2007-01/msg00383.html (9,466 bytes)
- 3. Re: [TenTec] code speed (score: 1)
- Author: Bwana Bob <wb2vuf@qsl.net>
- Date: Sun, 14 Jan 2007 18:36:10 -0500
- Curt: It looks like navy operators were pretty fast. The story I hear from K2VX was from army experience. He was in Greenland and the atmospherics were so bad that voice couldn't get through, so he t
- /archives//html/TenTec/2007-01/msg00386.html (12,323 bytes)
- 4. Re: [TenTec] Code Speed (score: 1)
- Author: Bwana Bob <wb2vuf@qsl.net>
- Date: Fri, 19 Jan 2007 17:23:00 -0500
- Yes, we are still running nets on 80 m. Not as much traffic as there used to be, but a great bunch of guys and girls. It is very tight in the CW/digital "ghetto" now, but we try very hard to avoid QR
- /archives//html/TenTec/2007-01/msg00583.html (10,005 bytes)
- 5. Re: [TenTec] Code Speed (score: 1)
- Author: Bwana Bob <wb2vuf@qsl.net>
- Date: Fri, 19 Jan 2007 17:29:40 -0500
- Frank: Yes, you can still run CW there, but only if you have an Extra Class license. Advanced and General lost the 100 kHz from 3600 to 3700 completely. I'm ticked off. I have an Advanced, so I'm now
- /archives//html/TenTec/2007-01/msg00584.html (12,141 bytes)
- 6. Re: [TenTec] Omni VI TCXO (score: 1)
- Author: Bwana Bob <wb2vuf@qsl.net>
- Date: Mon, 22 Jan 2007 20:06:20 -0500
- Is there a way to put a TCXO in the Paragon? Maybe it was available in the commercial version? 73, Bob WB2VUF Paul Christensen wrote: Interestingly, if I remember correctly, Scott described at one ti
- /archives//html/TenTec/2007-01/msg00675.html (9,449 bytes)
- 7. Re: [TenTec] [Fwd: FCC ELIMINATES CW EXAM] (score: 1)
- Author: Bwana Bob <wb2vuf@qsl.net>
- Date: Sun, 17 Dec 2006 18:01:16 -0500
- I know this is off-topic, but I can't resist. What you discuss was already in the movie "Independence Day". In the movie, aliens attack the earth. Nothing can stop them and they knock out all of our
- /archives//html/TenTec/2006-12/msg00380.html (10,660 bytes)
- 8. Re: [TenTec] Arrl and code (score: 1)
- Author: Bwana Bob <wb2vuf@qsl.net>
- Date: Sun, 17 Dec 2006 18:13:13 -0500
- Years ago, ARRL was dominated by cw types, but the balance shifted when the old guard started retiring. Now they are just trying anything they can to get more licensed hams. CW is not politically cor
- /archives//html/TenTec/2006-12/msg00381.html (10,721 bytes)
- 9. Re: [TenTec] Arrl and code (score: 1)
- Author: Bwana Bob <wb2vuf@qsl.net>
- Date: Sun, 17 Dec 2006 18:20:58 -0500
- Thanks, Joel, for setting the record straight on that. Let's all remember that it is the elected division directors who set ARRL policy, not the HQ staffers. 73, Bob WB2VUF CEO, K1ZZ, is a very hot C
- /archives//html/TenTec/2006-12/msg00382.html (11,940 bytes)
- 10. Re: [TenTec] Corsair II Internal Fuse (score: 1)
- Author: Bwana Bob <wb2vuf@qsl.net>
- Date: Fri, 29 Dec 2006 13:09:23 -0500
- Sometimes they just blow from old age and the stress of repeated current surges. 73, Bob WB2VUF Can someone please tell me the most likely cause of the blown fuse and what to do next? 73 Mike G0EFO _
- /archives//html/TenTec/2006-12/msg00776.html (7,928 bytes)
- 11. Re: [TenTec] Hardware FSK (score: 1)
- Author: Bwana Bob <wb2vuf@qsl.net>
- Date: Fri, 29 Dec 2006 21:57:42 -0500
- Kim: I use an old Kantronics KAM to drive the FSK input on my Paragon. 73, Bob WB2VUF Of those of you who do hardware FSK, what do you use to do it? Kim ______________________________________________
- /archives//html/TenTec/2006-12/msg00814.html (7,485 bytes)
- 12. Re: [TenTec] Rigs for sale (score: 1)
- Author: Bwana Bob <wb2vuf@qsl.net>
- Date: Fri, 17 Nov 2006 14:21:52 -0500
- KJI is in Caldwell, in Northern New Jersey. Bob WB2VUF Ken J. Indart WA4RPH (no kidding!) All Collins for over 30 years. --Original Message-- From: tentec-bounces@contesting.com [mailto:tentec-bounce
- /archives//html/TenTec/2006-11/msg00224.html (8,735 bytes)
- 13. Re: [TenTec] FW: [QRP-L] Next problem with cw on Corsair (score: 1)
- Author: Bwana Bob <wb2vuf@qsl.net>
- Date: Tue, 21 Nov 2006 20:44:03 -0500
- I find that the sidetone sounds better if you use the old style hi-Z magnetic headphones. 80 meter QRM seems less annoying, too. Lately I've been using a set of Trimm Radio phones with am 8 ohm to 50
- /archives//html/TenTec/2006-11/msg00302.html (9,909 bytes)
- 14. Re: [TenTec] FW: [QRP-L] Next problem with cw on Corsair (score: 1)
- Author: Bwana Bob <wb2vuf@qsl.net>
- Date: Tue, 21 Nov 2006 20:49:14 -0500
- I read on the Maritime Radio Historical Society web site that they used a Drake 2B as a cw monitor at the KPH coast station. The coast station ops wanted to hear their cw as sent over the air. 73, Bo
- /archives//html/TenTec/2006-11/msg00303.html (10,500 bytes)
- 15. Re: [TenTec] Scout RF GAIN mods? (score: 1)
- Author: Bwana Bob <wb2vuf@qsl.net>
- Date: Mon, 02 Oct 2006 21:21:18 -0400
- I see that someone sent you the mod that I described. It is basically the same as the Argosy mod described in February 1986 QST and in the first edition of ARRL's QRP classics. I later took the mod o
- /archives//html/TenTec/2006-10/msg00050.html (8,053 bytes)
- 16. Re: [TenTec] RF Gain mod for ARGO V (score: 1)
- Author: Bwana Bob <wb2vuf@qsl.net>
- Date: Sat, 07 Oct 2006 06:46:08 -0400
- Ten-Tec did issue a service bulletin on adding an RF gain control to the original Argosy (525). It is service bulletin TN2-525. I don't have a copy of it, but it must be available. 73, Bob WB2VUF Did
- /archives//html/TenTec/2006-10/msg00165.html (8,653 bytes)
- 17. Re: [TenTec] New to group - looking for manual (score: 1)
- Author: Bwana Bob <wb2vuf@qsl.net>
- Date: Mon, 09 Oct 2006 07:44:51 -0400
- I think you can still get a manual from Ten-Tec at a reasonable cost. Bob WB2VUF MICHAEL SOUHRADA wrote: I have the II in pdf format. 10,000 k are you on dsl? Might be real long on a dial up. Cover i
- /archives//html/TenTec/2006-10/msg00242.html (9,178 bytes)
- 18. Re: [TenTec] Questions on Corsair II (score: 1)
- Author: Bwana Bob <wb2vuf@qsl.net>
- Date: Mon, 09 Oct 2006 07:52:51 -0400
- Steve: Usually the warbling is caused by the PTO, especially if running the dial up and down the band a couple of times seems to help. The grease gets sticky. There is another cause, if you have the
- /archives//html/TenTec/2006-10/msg00243.html (10,760 bytes)
- 19. Re: [TenTec] eHam Reviews (score: 1)
- Author: Bwana Bob <wb2vuf@qsl.net>
- Date: Fri, 20 Oct 2006 18:05:58 -0400
- Don't discount the possibility that some e-ham posting may be hoaxes. Happy Halloween! 73, Bob WB2VUF But for the first time in a long time I bothered to read through the comments overall. Interestin
- /archives//html/TenTec/2006-10/msg00523.html (9,306 bytes)
- 20. Re: [TenTec] Century 21 Tuning Knob (score: 1)
- Author: Bwana Bob <wb2vuf@qsl.net>
- Date: Fri, 08 Sep 2006 22:25:17 -0400
- I think the size is 0.050. I agree, the best fix is the rebuild kit. Shortcuts will be short-lived. You may have worn bearings inside and usually the old grease has dried out. Bob WB2VUF There are va
- /archives//html/TenTec/2006-09/msg00158.html (9,047 bytes)
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