[TenTec] Thank Goodness for TT Scout!

[Frank Krozel]

Sounds like a good commercial for the boys in Sevierville to use in an ad.
Frank Krozel KG9H
----- Original Message ----- 
From: Carl Hyde <cshyde@yahoo.com>
To: Ten Tec <tentec@contesting.com>
Sent: Monday, June 28, 1999 3:32 PM
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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