[TenTec] Corsair differences....

[Rob Atkinson, K5UJ]

<<<What's the story on the PTO, however?  Do the
Corsair's PTOs REALLY need repeated rebuilding? >>>

Hi Craig,

I bought a factory rehabbed C2 from Ten Tec a few years ago.  The PTO was 
okay on phone but on cw it exhibited the wobbly cw note that indicated it 
needed rebuilding (at least that was what it seemed like to me).  I sent it 
in to TT for a rebuild and it came back and still had the warbling cw note.  
It also was beginning to show age related problems that you would expect in 
any 20 year old rig.  I gave up and basically gave it away to a young ham 
who was getting started and needed a HF rig.  that was my experience but by 
no means should it be considered typical since I think there are many 
satisfied C2 owners out there, and ignoring the probs I had, it was a swell 
cw rig and had a nice sound on phone.  It had a variable AF bandpass filter 
that was real nice.   It also let you zero beat the other station on cw as 
if you were operating separates instead of a transceiver.  I have never 
liked the typical transceiver method of matching the sidetone freq. to the 
other stations beat frequency.

GL & 73

rob / k5uj

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