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Re: [TenTec] Burned at the bay

To: Discussion of Ten-Tec Equipment <tentec@contesting.com>
Subject: Re: [TenTec] Burned at the bay
From: Jim Lowman <jmlowman@sbcglobal.net>
Reply-to: Discussion of Ten-Tec Equipment <tentec@contesting.com>
Date: Tue, 17 May 2005 19:35:27 -0700
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Hi Rich,

You were placed on moderation for the reference to "EB" in this message.
The list rules strictly prohibit ANY reference to auctions or auction 
sites, eBay especially.
A lot of guys got caught in this, by contributing to this thread.
That being said, I'll remove the moderation.

73 de Jim - AD6CW

Richard Detweiler wrote:

>Hi Danial,
>
>I was out of Ham Radio for several years, When I got back in, I was 
>fortunate when I bought the two omni D's as I knew they were not in great 
>shape from the seller, paid $400 for the both and he threw in a broken 252M 
>for free, they had all the filters and both had two Extra WARC kits in.
>
>It took a couple of months of puttering on them, but basicly the antenna 
>diodes and the rf amplifier on both were bad, fixed them and some odds and 
>end connectors.  The contacts on all those band switches needed cleaning, 
>the board connectors were all cleaned, The PTO's weren't difficult either, 
>just alot of careful attention as the face plates as they were removed to 
>get to all the mechanisms,  I used some new felt to replace the old ones and 
>found some grease that would not seiz up to finish it off.  To fix the 
>On-Off audio control, TT doen't have parts, but found a similar control in 
>100 ohms, so took the original graphite plate out of the one in the unit  
>wiped it up and replaced it with the one in the new control to give it the 
>proper resistance.
>
>Things can be done to 40 year old rigs to make them perform like new if you 
>are creative.  Both came alive and worked very nicely,  Sold them both to 
>new hams on "EB", one in GA and one in AZ,  both were happy with them and 
>reported back to me that they were impressed by the low noise of the OMNI D.
>
>Got serious about contesting and went on to TT's new rigs primairily because 
>of the impressions from the OMNI D's.
>
>Best wishes,
>Rich
>K5SF
>
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