Look at the Argosy Mods in the Ten-Tec unofficial website. They are at:
http://asd.state.va.us/tentec/mods/525mods.htm
The one to fix the noise floor problem seems simple enough, but some are
pretty esoteric.
73 de Mike N4NT@wireco.net
----- Original Message -----
From: David Feldman <dgf@netcom.com>
To: <tentec@contesting.com>
Sent: Thursday, September 23, 1999 3:11 PM
Subject: [TenTec] Older Argosy 525 - internal noise floor?
>
> I have rather elderly Argosy 525 which seems to have a rather high
internal
> noise floor - if I connect the rig to a dummy load and receive, I get
strong
> white noise (proportional to AF gain). It receives OK, although I think
the
> noise is strong enough to at least be objectionable, and probably mask
some
> of the weakest signals, particularly on higher bands. Has any sort of
> modification been written that might address this, or should I just start
> troubleshooting, or is this considered normal for this rig?
>
> 73 Dave WB0GAZ dgf@netcom.com
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