The way I'd decide is to just rotate them on and off the desk. Before long,
I found there was one that would stay much longer on the desk until I just
did not feel like changing out again.
Mike N4NT@chartertn.net
----- Original Message -----
From: "Jim Reid" <kh7m@hsa-kauai.net>
To: <tentec@contesting.com>
Sent: Sunday, April 22, 2001 6:28 PM
Subject: [TenTec] Decisions - Sell TT Gear
>
> Hi all,
>
> Well, here I sit pondering what to do about four
> TT rigs I have picked up over the past three years
> or so, really just to compare performance among them.
> Well, they are all just great! But they are different,
> spanning some 20+ years, and of differing design.
>
> But, I really only and actually believe I want to keep one
> of them. I am trying to give one away, one of my two
> Triton 544's; have offered to a private school out here,
> but that was months ago, and they just have not gotten
> around to coming by to pick it up! One of the teachers has,
> at last, gotten a license, the new 5 wpm sort, which is fine.
> But not real sure how really serious they are about wanting
> the 20 year old unit. Someone will probably show up here
> should I call and tell them I am about to sell it elsewhere!
> Anyway, also the following 544.
>
> This other 544 also has TT accessories: remote VFO, a new TT
> PS, and both the TT remote/RF SSB voice processor
> and the 160 meter converter, and manuals, and the original
> TT, ala Electrovoice, mike for the Triton (with the odd phono
> plug mike connector).
>
> Also have a Corsair II, new TT PS for same, the matching
> remote VFO. Both of these rigs have been to TT in the
> last couple of years to have the PTO's rebuilt, realigned,
> etc. Manual, sales literature, etc. also for the C II.
>
> Also have an Omni VI+, and matching PS; this rig is "full"
> of INRAD filters including two 2.8's and a pair of 400Hz
> CW units. Have several other TT and INRAD filters also.
>
> I only would like to keep one of these rigs, and am thinking of
> keeping it primarily for CW; but, if I keep the Omni, have it
> set up just now with the computer for PSK operation. Though
> no big deal, I think, to set up either a Triton or the Corsair for
> PSK as well. Not finding the PSK mode to be that "exciting"
> for me, anyway, hi.
>
> Which of these should I keep?? Any opinions based upon any
> particular feature/benefit. I have operated all three of course,
> and find myself unable really to reach a decision, hi. They
> probably differ by about 10 years space in production: the
> Triton late 70's, the Corsair late 80's, and the Omni was
> new in late Summer, early Fall '98.
>
> Part of the problem is the dollars I have into the three "new"
> TT power supplies, and the fact that these rigs are out here
> in Hawaii, which adds to the cost of shipping, and subtracts
> from the value to potential main land buyers.
>
> I certainly cannot operate them all, and it is too bad to have
> them sitting here growing older along with me. I got them for
> what I wished: evaluation, experimenting, etc. I am NOT a
> serious DX chaser, nor contester, more sort of casual
> ragchewing; which is where I started way back in 1950!
>
> Thoughts, suggestions, offers?
>
> 73, Jim, KH7M
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