[TenTec] Lee - hang in there!

CYR999@extremezone.com CYR999@extremezone.com
Thu, 05 Sep 2002 10:35:33 -0700 (MST)


Lee - for the record there are some brilliant minds that participate in this 
reflector and some are very generous with their time and willingness to help 
others. If you have questions you will very likely get answers.....as George 
says, it is a two way street. You would not believe how much George has helped 
me....and then there is Carl and others...all very neat people. Just for the 
record :-) 73/Tim Logan NZ7C

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>    1. Re: This is getting boring (Bill ROWLETT)
>    2. Re: This is getting boring (William Mansey; WA2PVK)
>    3. radio names (Paul DeWitte K9OT)
>    4. CFO? + cheap multiband vertical (Rob Atkinson, K5UJ)
>    5. FS Triton 540 252G (MIKE SOUHRADA)
>    6. Re: This is getting boring (Duane A Calvin)
>    7. Any spare Corsair PTO's out there? (Clark Savage Turner)
>    8. want 4 pole SSB filter (Clark Savage Turner)
>    9. Re: PTO grease (W5vhp@aol.com)
>   10. Re: Contesters do use verticals (Stuart Rohre)
>   11. Re: PTO grease (Stuart Rohre)
>   12. Re: PTO grease (Robert & Linda McGraw K4TAX)
>   13. Re: This is getting borin <snip> Argonaut V (Paul, VE1DY)
>   14. RX 350 Have you Noticed?? (Bill KB9IV)
>   15. Re: RX 350 Have you Noticed?? (Mark Erbaugh)
>   16. This IS boring! (Lee Groce)
>   17. Re: This IS boring! (George, W5YR)
>   18. Re: This IS boring! (Duane Grotophorst)
>   19. TT 260 PS Question (ARDUJENSKI@aol.com)
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> Message: 1
> Date: Wed, 4 Sep 2002 09:05:44 -0700 (PDT)
> From: Bill ROWLETT <kc4atu@yahoo.com>
> Subject: Re: [TenTec] This is getting boring
> To: w4foa@voy.net, AC5E@aol.com
> Cc: aa4nu@ix.netcom.com, tentec@contesting.com
> 
> Last thing heard on the Argonaut V was the middle of
> Sept.  One more week to go maybe.
> 
> 73  Bill  kc4atu
> 
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> Message: 2
> From: "William Mansey; WA2PVK" <res0wsci@verizon.net>
> To: "Bill ROWLETT" <kc4atu@yahoo.com>, <w4foa@voy.net>, <AC5E@aol.com>
> Cc: <aa4nu@ix.netcom.com>, <tentec@contesting.com>
> Subject: Re: [TenTec] This is getting boring
> Date: Wed, 4 Sep 2002 12:57:27 -0400
> 
> I am not bored!  I am too full of anxiety about "my" Orion to be bored! 
> If
> sadness is blue and envy is green - - - what color is anticipation?
> Hopefully the Orions will be shipped by mid-October as per the latest
> update.   I am also eager to hear the reactions to all those lucky
> Argonaut
> recipients!
> 73;  Bill
> 
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> Message: 3
> From: "Paul DeWitte K9OT" <k9ot@mhtc.net>
> To: <TenTec@contesting.com>
> Date: Wed, 4 Sep 2002 12:14:30 -0500
> Subject: [TenTec] radio names
> 
> In WW II Corsairs were a big thing. When I went looking for a T T
> corsair I
> did not have any offers of the WW II Corsair for the same price as the T
> T
> Corsair.  I guess it was a good thing because it would not have fit in
> my
> ham shack any way, but parked in my driveway it would have made a good
> conversation piece. 73 Paul K9OT
> 
> 
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> Message: 4
> From: "Rob Atkinson, K5UJ" <k5uj@hotmail.com>
> To: tentec@contesting.com
> Date: Wed, 04 Sep 2002 17:31:47 +0000
> Subject: [TenTec] CFO? + cheap multiband vertical
> 
> >Any good CFO squawks on 40m?
> 
> Chief Financial Officer?
> 
> For a cheap multiband vertical with no radials, try this:
> 
> Make a wire dipole, each side at least 20' long (or 5 or 10 feet longer
> if 
> you can) and hang it from a tree, or any nonmetalic support available. 
> You 
> can make a support by using sandwiched overlapping 2x4s with a little 
> guying.  Put a short plank at  the top to hang the dipole off of.  At
> the 
> feedpoint attach open wire feed or ladder line and run that away at 90
> 
> degrees from the dipole to a balanced transmatch in the shack.  Tie down
> the 
> bottom so it doesn't flap around.  As a vertical this will work well I
> think 
> and be useable over a wide range of frequencies (determined by the
> inductors 
> and capacitor you use in the balanced feedline tuner).
> 
> Okay, there's no free lunch and while the antenna is cheap, if you don't
> 
> already have the tuner, that will cost some money for the components, 
> especially if you are building or buying one for 1.5 kw.
> OTOH, you'll have an addition to your shack that you will be able to use
> on 
> all kinds of antennas fed with open wire line.  The key here is using a
> 
> _balanced_ transmatch, sort of two synchonized LCs, one on each leg of
> the 
> feedline sharing a capacitor with a balun between them and the
> transmitter.  
> Keep the antenna simple; let the matching network do the work.  See: 
> http://www.vcnet.com/measures/bbat.html
> 
> 
> Rob Atkinson
> K5UJ
> k5uj@hotmail.com
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> Message: 5
> Date: Wed, 04 Sep 2002 12:46:57 -0500
> From: MIKE SOUHRADA <wb9iog@revealed.net>
> Organization: Back Yard Engineering
> To: tentec list <tentec@contesting.com>
> Subject: [TenTec] FS Triton 540 252G
> 
> Very good  a few scratches on top of the unit.
> P/S has a few on the front otherwise nice looking works FB.
> CW module & copy of manual 
> Dial string changed 
> $250 + ship 52753
> Mike
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> Message: 6
> To: tentec@contesting.com
> Date: Wed, 4 Sep 2002 12:52:11 -0500
> Subject: Re: [TenTec] This is getting boring
> From: Duane A Calvin <ac5aa@juno.com>
> 
> And then there's the Orion rotator marketed by M2 antennas...
> 
>         73,  Duane
> 
> 
> On Wed, 4 Sep 2002 10:39:24 -0400 "Ken & Linda Burrough"
> <w8keb@1st.net>
> writes:
> > Hi All
> > 
> > It was boring two days ago, now on to the Wally World Orion, yep I 
> > saw one
> > and almost put it on the reflector about a month ago.  How much 
> > power does
> > it put to the antenna?
> > 
> > I have order number one for the Argonaut V TCXO, so when I get it, 
> > everyone
> > will know.
> > 
> > That is it from The Buzzard Roost, Flushing, Ohio.
> > 
> > Ken/w8keb
> > 
> > 
> > 
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> 
> 
> Duane Calvin, AC5AA
> Austin, Texas
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> Message: 7
> Date: Wed, 4 Sep 2002 11:15:19 -0700
> From: Clark Savage Turner <csturner@slonet.org>
> To: tentec@contesting.com
> Subject: [TenTec] Any spare Corsair PTO's out there?
> 
> Getting lazy here, two projects on my bench already, don't want to pull
> 
> my PTO apart next to them just yet.  Anyone have a spare Corsair PTO 
> they can part with?  Heck, if you're nearby, I'd even borrow it for a 
> short time and at least I could eliminate some possible causes of my 
> awful drift.
> 
> Clark
> WA3JPG
> 
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> Message: 8
> Date: Wed, 4 Sep 2002 11:42:02 -0700
> From: Clark Savage Turner <csturner@slonet.org>
> To: tentec@contesting.com
> Subject: [TenTec] want 4 pole SSB filter
> 
> Or, if Vern, N2YZS is still monitoring here, I'd like to complete our 
> deal for one...sorry I dropped the ball, but now your email address is
> 
> gone bad (or at least my servers can't find you!)
> 
> Anyway, I would like a Ten Tec, 4 pole SSB filter if anyone has one.
> 
> Thanks.
> 
> Clark
> WA3JPG
> 
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> Message: 9
> From: W5vhp@aol.com
> Date: Wed, 4 Sep 2002 14:39:26 EDT
> Subject: Re: [TenTec] PTO grease
> To: n9dg@yahoo.com, tentec@contesting.com
> 
> Here's a suggestion regarding grease:
> 
> Why doesn't someone who wants to know what kind of grease TT uses, just
> make 
> a phone call to the TT service dept and ask them??  Then, make a posting
> to 
> the reflector and share your findings with the rest.
> 
> Betcha they would be more than happy to tell you!
> 
> Larry    W5VHP
> 
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> Message: 10
> From: "Stuart Rohre" <rohre@arlut.utexas.edu>
> To: "Billy Cox" <aa4nu@ix.netcom.com>, <tentec@contesting.com>
> Subject: Re: [TenTec] Contesters do use verticals
> Date: Wed, 4 Sep 2002 14:54:18 -0500
> 
> Actually, a number of winning DX Contest entries have been done with
> all
> vertical Antennas.  Look at the Force 12 web site for stories of K5K
> DX
> pedition,  and the Verticals on the Beach of DX contests in recent
> years.
> 73,
> Stuart K5KVH
> 
> 
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> Message: 11
> From: "Stuart Rohre" <rohre@arlut.utexas.edu>
> To: <AC5E@aol.com>, <jhw@rti.org>
> Cc: <tentec@contesting.com>
> Subject: Re: [TenTec] PTO grease
> Date: Wed, 4 Sep 2002 15:48:21 -0500
> 
> I would caution against Lubriplate, it hardened after many years and
> exposure to industrial lab environment in a couple places I know.  I
> think
> it is petroleum based, like the red greases.  All those seem to harden
> with
> time and heat.  Synthetic grease like Dow 44 High Temperature Ball
> Bearing
> grease stays pliable after 32 years.  Of course, the temperature and
> humidity environment affects the product, thus in some places
> Lubriplate
> might work.  In cars, it often hardens in exposure to air and the
> outside
> elements.  It is what was commonly used for Detroit's hood and trunk
> latches
> until more recent greases displaced it.
> 73,
> Stuart K5KVH
> 
> 
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> Message: 12
> Date: Wed, 04 Sep 2002 16:04:33 -0500
> From: Robert & Linda McGraw K4TAX <RMcGraw@Blomand.Net>
> Subject: Re: [TenTec] PTO grease
> To: Stuart Rohre <rohre@arlut.utexas.edu>, AC5E@aol.com, jhw@rti.org
> Cc: tentec@contesting.com
> 
> I would think some of the Dow Corning viscous fluid in a viscosity range
> of,
> as I recall, 25000 to 50000 might be great.  It's viscosity is very
> stable
> over a wide temperature range and does not appear to evaporate after
> years
> of use.  (We used the stuff as a damping fluid in some disk cutting
> equipment at the recording studio.  If anyone has knowledge of a
> Scully/Westrex cutting system dash pot, you'll know what I'm speaking
> of.)
> 
> 73
> Bob K4TAX
> 
> 
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Stuart Rohre" <rohre@arlut.utexas.edu>
> To: <AC5E@aol.com>; <jhw@rti.org>
> Cc: <tentec@contesting.com>
> Sent: Wednesday, September 04, 2002 3:48 PM
> Subject: Re: [TenTec] PTO grease
> 
> 
> > I would caution against Lubriplate, it hardened after many years and
> > exposure to industrial lab environment in a couple places I know.  I
> think
> > it is petroleum based, like the red greases.  All those seem to
> harden
> with
> > time and heat.  Synthetic grease like Dow 44 High Temperature Ball
> Bearing
> > grease stays pliable after 32 years.  Of course, the temperature and
> > humidity environment affects the product, thus in some places
> Lubriplate
> > might work.  In cars, it often hardens in exposure to air and the
> outside
> > elements.  It is what was commonly used for Detroit's hood and trunk
> latches
> > until more recent greases displaced it.
> > 73,
> > Stuart K5KVH
> >
> >
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> Message: 13
> Date: Wed, 4 Sep 2002 14:41:32 -0700 (PDT)
> From: "Paul, VE1DY" <ve1dy@yahoo.com>
> Subject: Re: [TenTec] This is getting borin <snip> Argonaut V
> To: Ken & Linda Burrough <w8keb@1st.net>,
>    "Ten-Tec @ Contesting. Com" <tentec@contesting.com>
> 
> Thanks Ken. I will be looking for your post.
> 
> I'm somewhere in the middle.  The first shipment was half sold when I
> ordered mine.  When I see your post, mine shouldn't be too far behind.
> 
> I hope our dollar is "up" that day!
> 
> 73, Paul (ve1dy)
> 
> 
> --- Ken & Linda Burrough <w8keb@1st.net> wrote:
> 
> <snip>
> 
> > I have order number one for the Argonaut V TCXO, so when I get it,
> > everyone
> > will know.
> > 
> > That is it from The Buzzard Roost, Flushing, Ohio.
> > 
> > Ken/w8keb
> > 
> > 
> > 
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> Message: 14
> Date: Wed, 04 Sep 2002 19:33:48 -0500
> From: Bill KB9IV <wmarvin@mnic.net>
> To: "tentec@contesting.com" <tentec@contesting.com>
> Subject: [TenTec] RX 350 Have you Noticed??
> 
> I own a nice RX350 and have been playing with it for about 2 weeks. My
> question is this
> are the DSP bandwidths shape factor really 1.5 to 1??  I have a DSP
> timewave 599zx and
> had a TS870 and the DSP bandwidths bellow 800Hz on the 350 don't compare
> to the former.
> 
> I can even copy well AM sigs well with the 300 HZ minimum setting.  Has
> Ten Tec checked
> the Bandwidths below 800 Hz?? By my ears sounds more like a poor 3 or 4
> to one shape
> factor.  Is the Jupiter the same?  All my equiptment has 16 bit
> DSP...why such a difference?
> 
> Best to All
> 
> Bill KB9IV
> 
> 
> 
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> Message: 15
> From: "Mark Erbaugh" <mark@microenh.com>
> To: "Bill KB9IV" <wmarvin@mnic.net>, <tentec@contesting.com>
> Subject: Re: [TenTec] RX 350 Have you Noticed??
> Date: Wed, 4 Sep 2002 22:20:51 -0400
> 
> Bill,
> 
> It sounds like the performance of your 350 is similar to my Pegasus.
> Although a very primitive comparison, on the Digipan waterfall, I see
> blue
> signals for almost 1 kHz with the filter set to 300 Hz.  In contrast,
> when I
> set the RX340 filter to 100 Hz, I see only 100 Hz of blue on the
> waterfall.
> 
> Mark
> 
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Bill KB9IV" <wmarvin@mnic.net>
> To: <tentec@contesting.com>
> Sent: Wednesday, September 04, 2002 20:33 PM
> Subject: [TenTec] RX 350 Have you Noticed??
> 
> 
> > I own a nice RX350 and have been playing with it for about 2 weeks.
> My
> question is this
> > are the DSP bandwidths shape factor really 1.5 to 1??  I have a DSP
> timewave 599zx and
> > had a TS870 and the DSP bandwidths bellow 800Hz on the 350 don't
> compare
> to the former.
> >
> > I can even copy well AM sigs well with the 300 HZ minimum setting. 
> Has
> Ten Tec checked
> > the Bandwidths below 800 Hz?? By my ears sounds more like a poor 3 or
> 4 to
> one shape
> > factor.  Is the Jupiter the same?  All my equiptment has 16 bit
> DSP...why
> such a difference?
> >
> > Best to All
> >
> > Bill KB9IV
> >
> >
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> Message: 16
> From: "Lee Groce" <n4aad@yadtel.net>
> To: <tentec@contesting.com>
> Date: Wed, 4 Sep 2002 22:34:28 -0400
> Subject: [TenTec] This IS boring!
> 
> Hello to all,
> 
>  I am a new and had the impression that I would be reading
> and learning interesting new things - so far I have only saw=20
> criticisms about almost everything.   =20
> 
> I am tired of reading the same old boring things. I'll just listen
> to my radio for news from now on.
> 
> Lee Groce  N4AAD
>  
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> Message: 17
> Date: Wed, 04 Sep 2002 22:15:26 -0500
> From: "George, W5YR" <w5yr@att.net>
> Organization: AT&T WorldNet Service
> To: Lee Groce <n4aad@yadtel.net>
> CC: tentec@contesting.com
> Subject: Re: [TenTec] This IS boring!
> 
> Lee, try asking some interesting questions . . . it is a two-way street!
>  
> <:}
> 
> 73/72, George    
> Fairview, TX 30 mi NE of Dallas in Collin county EM13qe   
> Amateur Radio W5YR -  the Yellow Rose of Texas
> In the 57th year and it just keeps getting better!
> 
> 
> Lee Groce wrote:
> > 
> > Hello to all,
> > 
> >  I am a new and had the impression that I would be reading
> > and learning interesting new things - so far I have only saw
> > criticisms about almost everything.
> > 
> > I am tired of reading the same old boring things. I'll just listen
> > to my radio for news from now on.
> 
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> 
> Message: 18
> Date: Wed, 4 Sep 2002 20:58:07 -0700 (PDT)
> From: Duane Grotophorst <n9dg@yahoo.com>
> Subject: Re: [TenTec] This IS boring!
> To: "George, W5YR" <w5yr@att.net>, Lee Groce <n4aad@yadtel.net>
> Cc: tentec@contesting.com
> 
> 
> Yupp, and it doesn't hurt to wildly speculate and
> pontificate every now and then either ;). I find that
> of all the brand specific reflectors this is one of
> the more interesting and entertaining ones.
> 
> Duane
> N9DG
> 
> 
> --- "George, W5YR" <w5yr@att.net> wrote:
> > Lee, try asking some interesting questions . . . it
> > is a two-way street!  
> > <:}
> > 
> > 73/72, George    
> > Fairview, TX 30 mi NE of Dallas in Collin county
> > EM13qe   
> > Amateur Radio W5YR -  the Yellow Rose of Texas
> > In the 57th year and it just keeps getting better!
> > 
> > 
> > Lee Groce wrote:
> > > 
> > > Hello to all,
> > > 
> > >  I am a new and had the impression that I would be
> > reading
> > > and learning interesting new things - so far I
> > have only saw
> > > criticisms about almost everything.
> > > 
> > > I am tired of reading the same old boring things.
> > I'll just listen
> > > to my radio for news from now on.
> 
> 
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> Message: 19
> From: ARDUJENSKI@aol.com
> Date: Thu, 5 Sep 2002 10:27:21 EDT
> To: tentec@contesting.com
> Subject: [TenTec] TT 260 PS Question
> 
> I have an intermittant problem with the 260 PS for my Corsair. I will 
> occasionally get a mild hum on transmit (CW) that I can hear in the
> headset. 
> If I turn the power supply off and back on the problem disappears. Last
> week 
> in receive mode I heard a loud buzzing. Turning PS off then on made the
> buzz 
> go away. With the antenna removed from the Corsair, RF LOW SETTING and
> AF at 
> MAX, using the headset there is only a very very faint hum.
> 
> I am not sure where to start to look for the problem and would
> appreciate 
> suggestion(s). Yes the radio equipment is all grounded
> 
> Alan KB7MBI in Woodinville, WA
> FISTS 5702  Proud member of ARRL
> 
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