[CQ-Contest] Pre tuned Hf amps

[Braco OE1EMS]

hi scott

yes 5 sec is maybe to long but when i change band i have to just push only 
one buttun to tune up
and you still need to look to amp and move band switch, tune and load!
if i move from 15 to 10, amp will be stayed tune on 15m till i push the 
button.
motors are rotating always in same direction and when i tuning  for example 
from 15 to 20
this gonna take 5 sec but from 15 to 10 it´s take only 1 sec!
PTT is loocked when motors are running so i cann start transmiting trough 
amp with TRX  till motors are running
and as soon they stop PTT will be unloocked and amp will serve the power.
next step is to remove amps from the schack!
also everything else like BPF, band switch, tuner etc. is also controlled 
with radio/band decoder!

73
ems

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Scott Robbins" <w4pa at yahoo.com>
To: <cq-contest at contesting.com>
Sent: Tuesday, September 26, 2006 3:45 PM
Subject: [CQ-Contest] Pre tuned Hf amps


> >We using pretuned HF amps with 10 mehanical memories
>>on 80/20/15/10 per band 2 memories for CW/SSB
>>and on 160/40 per band 1 memory!
>>once you tune the amps they will go back allways on same place!
>>tuning time is between 1-5 sec.
>
> 5 seconds seems like an awful long time to wait for an amp to tune when I 
> can
> beat that doing it manually, and do it without transmitting through the 
> amp.
> Flip bandswitch, turn knobs to the presets I have written on a file 
> card...
>
> Call me old fashioned.
>
> Scott
>
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