[TenTec] Burned at the bay

Jim Lowman jmlowman at sbcglobal.net
Tue May 17 22:35:27 EDT 2005


Hi Rich,

You were placed on moderation for the reference to "EB" in this message.
The list rules strictly prohibit ANY reference to auctions or auction 
sites, eBay especially.
A lot of guys got caught in this, by contributing to this thread.
That being said, I'll remove the moderation.

73 de Jim - AD6CW

Richard Detweiler wrote:

>Hi Danial,
>
>I was out of Ham Radio for several years, When I got back in, I was 
>fortunate when I bought the two omni D's as I knew they were not in great 
>shape from the seller, paid $400 for the both and he threw in a broken 252M 
>for free, they had all the filters and both had two Extra WARC kits in.
>
>It took a couple of months of puttering on them, but basicly the antenna 
>diodes and the rf amplifier on both were bad, fixed them and some odds and 
>end connectors.  The contacts on all those band switches needed cleaning, 
>the board connectors were all cleaned, The PTO's weren't difficult either, 
>just alot of careful attention as the face plates as they were removed to 
>get to all the mechanisms,  I used some new felt to replace the old ones and 
>found some grease that would not seiz up to finish it off.  To fix the 
>On-Off audio control, TT doen't have parts, but found a similar control in 
>100 ohms, so took the original graphite plate out of the one in the unit  
>wiped it up and replaced it with the one in the new control to give it the 
>proper resistance.
>
>Things can be done to 40 year old rigs to make them perform like new if you 
>are creative.  Both came alive and worked very nicely,  Sold them both to 
>new hams on "EB", one in GA and one in AZ,  both were happy with them and 
>reported back to me that they were impressed by the low noise of the OMNI D.
>
>Got serious about contesting and went on to TT's new rigs primairily because 
>of the impressions from the OMNI D's.
>
>Best wishes,
>Rich
>K5SF
>
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