[TenTec] Thank Goodness for TT Scout!

[Gary Grove]

I have participated in a few FD's in my day and have seen (admittedly very
few) TT rigs get clobbered, too.  The Paragon always stands up to all of the
RF, but I heard a Scout get clobbered quite nicely.  When it wasn't being
overloaded by the nearby stations, it was being overloaded by Radio
Nederlands in Hilversum.  During FD '99, the best performers were a Paragon
I and a Kenwood TS 130 SE.  They were the only rigs that held up to all of
the RF.

> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-tentec@contesting.com [mailto:owner-tentec@contesting.com]On
> Behalf Of Carl Hyde
> Sent: Monday, June 28, 1999 1:32 PM
> To: Ten Tec
> Subject: [TenTec] Thank Goodness for TT Scout!
>
>
>
> I was a guest operator at one of the local clubs here
> in Southern New Jersey Saturday night.  I worked 80
> meter voice and 20 meter CW.  I got assigned to the 20
> meter cw station where they had a Kenmore TS-870 with
> electronic keyer and a networked PC using CT software.
> Well one contact into my shift and the Kenmore was
> overwhelmed by the adjacent channel.  Having never sen
> one before I was at a loss on how to narrow down the
> bandwidth.  I finally found one control that got it
> working OK.  Well then another group of operators got
> mixed up on their frequencies and tuned a linear into
> the 20 meter station amd fried the front end of the
> Kenmore.  Now this could hapen to anyone and is
> certainly no fault of the radio.  Luckily I had my
> scout in the truck and grabbed it for the cw station.
> The keyer plugged right in and the only thing lost was
> some of the logging automation via the RS-232
> interface.  But I was able to log many more contacts
> per 15 minute period with the scout than with the
> Kenmore because of the continuous filtering.  The next
> operator asked me how to work it and I showed him the
> two knobs and said goodnight.  Great radio and a
> no-brainer for CW.
>
> ===
> Carl S.HYDE
> W2CSH
>
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