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[TenTec] Re: DRIFTING (lab)

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Subject: [TenTec] Re: DRIFTING (lab)
From: "Tom North" <tomnorth@airmail.net>
Reply-to: tentec@contesting.com
Date: Mon, 8 Dec 2003 12:48:49 -0600
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 Same experience/opinion here (w/2 of 'em) - ~300Hz drift for 30 minutes,
then it stays put. All the rigs of that vintage (and a number since) need to
'come to temperature' before they are stable.

73,
Tom  N5OZQ

> 3 kilo cycles or 3 hundred cycles? 3 hundred is about normal for the pto =
> rigs during warm-up. The stability factor according to the Ten-Tec =
> manuals is after a 30 minute warm-up. If it is drifting 3 kc's I would =
> say there is a problem in the pto.
> 73. Ed/w4wvw
>   ----- Original Message -----=20
>   From: lab=20
>   To: tentec@contesting.com=20
>   Sent: Saturday, December 06, 2003 5:39 AM
>   Subject: [TenTec] DRIFTING
>
>
>   HELLO
>    HAVE A TEN TEC OMNI C 546 WHICH I BOUGHT USED ABT 12 YEARS AGO . FOR =
> THE FIRST TEN TO TWENTY MUNUTES WHEN TURNED ON COLD IT DRIFTS SLOWLY =
> ABOUT THREE KCS I LOVE THE QSK  BUT THE DRIFT BOTHERS ME .IS IT POSSIBLE =
> TO FIX? AS IT HAS DONE IT EVERSINCE I BOUBHT IT ?  THANKS MEL WA9YQA=20


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