My buddy 10 miles down the road is a certified packrat. He has all my old boatanchors and if/when we can
actually get into the room where he has them, I get to see them from time to time.
Also in the room are 2 or 3 sx100, sx115, ht44/sx117, sx122, 2 or 3 nationals, dx100, warrior and others. I'm
always surprised that that corner of his house hasn't fell off. lol
The rest of the tanks take up about 1/3 of the space in an old semi trailer he
has out back.
He has the ht37 and ht32 in the trailer.By the way ht37 have a wonderful sound on ssb. I've heard several on
ssb in the last year or so.
Steve wd0ct
----- Original Message -----
From: "Paul Gates, KD3JF" <pearly732003@yahoo.com>
To: "Discussion of Ten-Tec Equipment" <tentec@contesting.com>
Sent: Monday, May 01, 2006 9:10 AM
Subject: Re: [TenTec] Orion as AM radio
You are so right! How about Hall. HT37 or HT32....?? In my AM/CW days I never really had a heavy rig. I had
a Hall. HT40 Xmtr and Lafayette Receiver. My main stay station was a Gonset G66B receiver and a Elmac
AF67.Had a ball with it an worked loads of DX back in the 60s
Paul, KD3JF
Glen Burnie, MD
FM19qd (Map Grid Square)
----- Original Message ----
From: Steven Moore <scm@copper.net>
To: Discussion of Ten-Tec Equipment <tentec@contesting.com>
Sent: Monday, May 1, 2006 9:34:40 AM
Subject: Re: [TenTec] Orion as AM radio
I owned a dx100 and several of its hundred pound cousins. Other than selling
them on ebay for big $ I can't
think of any reason to have them back including am.
Same goes for the hallis and nationals.
Steve wd0ct
----- Original Message -----
From: "Rob Atkinson, K5UJ" <k5uj@hotmail.com>
To: <tentec@contesting.com>
Sent: Monday, May 01, 2006 7:59 AM
Subject: [TenTec] Orion as AM radio
If I wanted to get into AM operation, no solid state rig could ever
satisfy me. I'd want a big tube transmitter. <<<
There's this mythical idea hams seem to have, that decent AM can only happen
with a big plate modulated tube rig. I have no idea where this comes from,
given the fact that broadcasters are ditching this techology for solid state
transmitters as fast as they can. Turn on your medium wave AM receiver and
tune around to any radio station. Odds are 3:1 that you are hearing a solid
state rig, especially if you are tuned into a big 50 kw station. About the
only ones left running primary vacuum rigs are the dinky daytimers that
aren't generating enough revenue to go solid state.
the best sounding ham AM rigs out there now are solid state, either class E,
dsp generated AM from the flex radio, or low level modulated exciters
driving amps. a few guys are doing well with old tube broadcast rigs and
globe kings, gold dust twins etc. but for every one of them there are 100
with dx100s who are unbearable.
rob / k5uj
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