[TenTec] Was "new Ten Tec etc", comments and new topic

[Eddy Avila]

Carl....this a funny one, I too owned an MGA and cuz I was incapable of 
learning a lesson I later bought a Triumph Spitfire.....the good news is 
that the cars quality was so poor and I was just as poor I had to learn to 
fix them myself....same think with all the Heathkit gear I built and I owned 
many years ago.....I owned at one time just about every ham rig Heathkit 
ever sold. It wouldn't take long for even new Heathkit gear to break down 
which forced me to troubleshoot and fix them....this led to a good career in 
repairing electronic gear....HI!

Anyway, I too run a Scout in a 1985 Celica and have had a nasty problem with 
noise only on 20 meters when the engine is running, when the engine is off 
the noise disappears. I've done all the recommended grounding but to no 
avail! Looking for the easy way out, I ended up buying a Clear Speech DSP 
speaker and it easily handles the noise bringing up signals that would 
normally be at the noise floor of the Scout and unusable when the engine was 
running. I know I should be dealing with the source of the noise and that 
the Clearspeech speaker is a Band-Aid, but it works great with little effort 
on my part....just more money to spend on ham stuff.

73...../ed

>From: Carl Hyde <cshyde@yahoo.com>

>
>Ah Lucas the Prince of Darkness! In my masochistic days I owned four MGB's. 
>You
>could pull them in the garage at night and if you turned out the lights and
>were real quiet you could hear them rust. Now that Ford owns Jaguar they 
>have
>gotten better but as long as they keep building them in england they'll be
>inferior to every car but KIA (Korean Incendiary Automobile).
>
>Now on to an apropriate subject before the reflector gestapo cuts in. I 
>just
>put  my Scout into mobile service and have to admit that it works nicely 
>since
>it only has four controls to distract the driver. The noise blanker is very
>effective but I'm still getting a little bit of ignition noise on the 
>audio.
>I'm using a Ford Windstar. The Scout is wired directly to the battery. I am
>assuming that I need extra noise suppression and wasn't sure where to 
>start.
>One question I have is this. Should the radio itself be grounded to the 
>vehicle
>frame? Where should I start to add additional noise suppression? Thanks 
>all.
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
>--- Rich Gaarden <richg@toolcity.net> wrote:
> >
> > Many years ago I was curious why the English often drank warm beer.  The
> > reason, I learned was that they used Lucas refrigerators.
> >
> > Rich KF3DQ
> >
> >
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