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Re: [TenTec] Argosy 2

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Subject: Re: [TenTec] Argosy 2
From: ROLAND HOWELL via TenTec <tentec@contesting.com>
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Date: Tue, 6 Oct 2020 21:24:44 +0100 (BST)
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Hi Ken

As per Mikes advice i have checked the voltages to the final's ( 0.7v) all ok, not certain of the function of Q5 and U1.

Have replaced all of the driver's, final's and U1.

Have checked the output on my scope, nice and healthy input and output from the drivers, it gets lost from then on.

I have also noticed that there is very little output on a number of bands,(10m, 17m, and a couple of others, possible fault on the filter?).

I purchased a scruffy but working radio to take voltage comparisons as i have 6.1volts on the t/rx connector #8 on the rf mixer board whilst in receive, disconnect the tx power to #8, rx audio comes up a few dBs, Both Mike and i think that the radio has been zapped, yet the rx is great.

hope i haven't bored you

73

Snowy

------ Original Message ------
From: "Ken Brown" <kenradiobrown@gmail.com>
To: "Discussion of Ten-Tec Equipment" <tentec@contesting.com>
Sent: Tuesday, 6 Oct, 20 At 20:40
Subject: Re: [TenTec] Argosy 2
Since I don't have a schematic for that radio to look at I'm not sure where T3 is. Input to final transistors or output? Even so, direct comparison on a wattmeter may be misleading. The impedance is different in various places in the PA circuit, only the input and output to the whole PA board can be assumed to be 50 Ohms. How about measuring voltage at those various points
using either a HF AC Voltmeter (the kind with the detector diode right
inside the probe) or an Oscilloscope with 10X probe?
DE N6KB
On Tue, Oct 6, 2020 at 9:21 AM ROLAND HOWELL via TenTec <
tentec@contesting.com> wrote:

Hi All
Update on the above radio, i attached a co-ax pigtail to the collectors
of the drive trannies, got 1.5 - 2 watts out at that point, then fitted
the pig tail to the base's of the power trannies, got just milliwatts
out, so then attached the pig tail's to output leads of the T3, got just
0.5watts out of that transformer.
So do those transformers go faulty?
Any/all advice appreciated
Thanks
Snowy G0HZE
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