[CQ-Contest] Re: ts-850

[KN5H]

Sean:
For what its worth.
We took 2 rigs on a contest-pedition 2 years ago, an 850 and a 570.
The bad news was the 850 went QRT. The worse news was we had to use the 570.
It sucked.
The next year I went on another contest-pedition with the same 850 and a
TS120 backup. The 850 stayed alive and boy was it great.
73 de kn5h

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Sent: Wednesday, August 28, 2002 3:03 PM
Subject: CQ-Contest digest, Vol 1 #343 - 12 msgs


> Message: 1
> Date: Tue, 27 Aug 2002 22:04:17 -0500
> To: cq-contest at contesting.com
> From: Ken Adams <k5ka at earthlink.net>
> Subject: [CQ-Contest] Re: ts-850
>
> At 10:46 PM 8/27/02 -0400, you wrote:
> >I went out and traded my TS-570 for a TS-850. I feel as though I have
left
> the computer age for the stone age. So here are some questions.
> >
>
> First of all, you have acquired a great contest radio!
>
> >1. only have one antenna post I have two antennas comming in there is
only
> one but I see this recieve antenna mod. Is that just for recieve or can
you
> transmit on it?
> >
>
> The receive mod is for a receive only antenna.  You only have 1 SO239
> available for
> your transmit antenna.
>
> >2. To have this hook into computer for like dxbase and have the vfo band
> and mode switched auto matically then what can I use. there is no rs232
> port so how do you go about hooking it up then is there a  box to buy or
what?
> >
>
> Kenwood made an interface called the IF232C, but I recommend you build
your
> own.
> See http://www.qth.com/ka9fox/ts850_mods.txt  for some good mods,
including
> the
> computer interface.
>
>
> >3. keying with a contest program what can I use to do this with I have
rig
> blaster will that do the trick?
> >
>
> Check out the W1WEF parallel port interface.  It works great and works
with
> all the
> popular contest logging programs, or you can build your own.
>
> >any other useful hints will be usefull thanks much.
> >
>
> Go to Google and do a search on "TS850 mods", then enjoy the reading.
>
> Good luck and enjoy the rig.
> 73, Ken K5KA