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Re: [TenTec] Old vs New = crunch time

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Subject: Re: [TenTec] Old vs New = crunch time
From: "Dr. Gerald N. Johnson" <geraldj@weather.net>
Reply-to: geraldj@weather.net, Discussion of Ten-Tec Equipment <tentec@contesting.com>
Date: Thu, 04 Feb 2010 10:12:18 -0600
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On Wed, 2010-02-03 at 17:58 +0100, Malcolm McLeman wrote:
> Roger,
> Personally I think the Corsair2 must be well below your $600 dollar budget.
> I've owned both the C1 and C2. The C1 I got fairly cheap as the final 
> transistors were shot, which I repaired.
> As it belonged to a friend I actually heard this rig DX.
> It was and  in my humble opinion still is one of the best on the air CW sigs 
> ever, excellent at punching holes through pile-ups running only 100w.
> Receiver sensitivity and superb QSK were well ahead of any of it's oriental 
> contemporaries. .
> I do however have some reservations on the Corsair.
> It is not rock solid on frequency readout and has a considerable drift 
> problem before final warm up.
> It has the worst sidetone I've ever heard on any rig, very unpleasant to 
> listen to especially over a long period contesting.

But that relaxation oscillator has one good feature. It starts and stops
fast, so it doesn't hang behind fast keying. A low pass filter on the
speaker can help it a lot. I'll have a circuit that I did over 20 years
ago up on a web page in a while.

> Because of its age, there can be a dry grease problem on the main tuning 
> mechanism resulting in erratic tuning.
> This has plagued my C2 since purchase even though I've managed to 
> temporarily fix it over the years.
> As a mainly cw op, the sidetone has been a big disappointment and this "TT 
> ha'penny worth of tar" could've put me off buying had I been given a 
> hands-on opportunity
> pre-purchase.
> I'm glad I didn't because both rigs have done me proud over the years 
> regardless of their shortcomings and I still remain very much a TT 
> afficionado.
> 73
> 
> Malcolm/F5VBU

73, Jerry, K0CQ

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