[TenTec] Omni D vs Delta

Steve Ellington n4lq@iglou.com
Sun, 27 Jan 2002 21:10:28 -0500


Oh yea and I forgot to mention the Omni had a tuneable preselector and the
Delta came along with low pass receive filters for each band.

Steve Ellington
N4LQ
----- Original Message -----
From: "Winston F. Jones" <winjones@ix.netcom.com>
To: "Steve Ellington" <n4lq@iglou.com>; <wa2tti@worldlynx.net>; "Tentec"
<tentec@contesting.com>
Sent: Sunday, January 27, 2002 8:47 PM
Subject: Re: [TenTec] Omni D vs Delta


> I believe the Delta 580 first appeared in late 1980. It was the first
> entirely new Ten-Tec rig to include the WARC bands. The Omni D, Series C,
> did come out somewhere around 1979. It was sort of a retrofit WARC rig,
and
> as you note, there were always some problems with mixer products.
> 73, Winston  K4CWQ
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Steve Ellington" <n4lq@iglou.com>
> To: <wa2tti@worldlynx.net>; "Tentec" <tentec@contesting.com>
> Sent: Sunday, January 27, 2002 18:54 PM
> Subject: Re: [TenTec] Omni D vs Delta
>
>
> > Working from memory...The Omni D came out around 1979-80. The 580 a few
> > years later. The Omni had a 9mhz IF chain while the Delta 580 had
6.3mhz.
> I
> > believe the change in frequency cleared up some problems with 17 meter
> band
> > mixer products.
> > The Omni had more audio filter positions but both rigs had AF derived
agc.
> > The Delta was considerably smaller in size and a shade of elephant snot
> > green compared to the Omni's black with aluminum trim. Hope that helps.
> > Steve Ellington
> > N4LQ
> > ----- Original Message -----
> > From: "Jerry Harley" <wa2tti@worldlynx.net>
> > To: "Tentec" <tentec@contesting.com>
> > Sent: Sunday, January 27, 2002 6:02 PM
> > Subject: [TenTec] Omni D vs Delta
> >
> >
> > > Can someone compare the Omni D to the 580 Delta, and dates of
> > > manufacture. Jerry
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