[TenTec] Corsair differences....

[W5JMW John]

Let me chime in on this.A good friend on mine,AJ5Q(sk) ran a corsair duece 
for many years on cw.Yes his pto finally became wobbly on cw.He was a smoker 
aand a cw op(tune up and down lower 25 constantly).I rebuilt it since he 
didn't want to send it in and be down.I had rebuilt several 
cx-7's..But,after I did this we found that ten-tec would send a re-built 
pto.So we kept a re-build on hand to swap if ever needed.BUT,he ran his for 
10 years and many qso's before a rebuild.Remember,it is a 
PTO.Not,digital...this is to be expected after some time with pto..73 all 
john
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Rob Atkinson, K5UJ" <k5uj at hotmail.com>
To: <tentec at contesting.com>
Sent: Friday, June 09, 2006 9:15 PM
Subject: Re: [TenTec] Corsair differences....


> <<<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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