[TenTec] ORION BCI

[Steve N4LQ]

Hmmm. I suppose I could rectify and filter it then measure the DC voltage 
with my DVM or perhaps the scope.
A couple of years ago I disconnected the ground wire between the furnance 
and cold water pipe then inserted an ammeter. There was a heafty current, 
easily read on the ma. scale of my Tripplet vom and it fluctuated with 
WHAS's modulation!

Steve Ellington
N4LQ at iglou.com
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Martin, AA6E" <martin.ewing at gmail.com>
To: "Discussion of Ten-Tec Equipment" <tentec at contesting.com>
Sent: Friday, May 27, 2005 4:52 PM
Subject: Re: [TenTec] ORION BCI


> Steve,
>
> I don't doubt your reports.  Vacuum tubes are the best for strong
> signals! Can you measure the actual BC voltage at the antenna
> terminals?
>
> 73 Martin AA6E
>
> On 5/27/05, n4lq <n4lq at iglou.com> wrote:
>> Ok but I doubt all of this. The Orion I had here was totally devistated
>> by BCI from WHAS, 50kw about 10 miles away when using my loop. The loop
>> gives any rig a hard way to go unless there's a tuner inline. A few rigs
>> are able to withstand this such as my TS-480, TS-930, IC-756PROII and
>> OMNI VI but the older TT rigs were totally rendered useless unless I had
>> a tuner or my ICE filter in-line. Oh yes, the Jupiter and Pegasus were
>> also wiped out. The Orion was blasted on 160 and 80m. My HQ-150 and SX-
>> 122 don't notice a thing! '
>> Steve
>>
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