[TenTec] Orion as AM radio

[Steven Moore]

My buddy 10 miles down the road is a certified packrat. He has all my old boatanchors and if/when we can 
actually get into the room where he has them, I get to see them from time to time.

Also in the room are 2 or 3 sx100, sx115, ht44/sx117, sx122, 2 or 3 nationals, dx100, warrior and others. I'm 
always surprised that that corner of his house hasn't fell off. lol

The rest of the tanks take up about 1/3 of the space in an old semi trailer he has out back.

He has the ht37 and ht32 in the trailer.By the way ht37 have a wonderful sound on ssb. I've heard several on 
ssb in the last year or so.

Steve  wd0ct


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Paul Gates, KD3JF" <pearly732003 at yahoo.com>
To: "Discussion of Ten-Tec Equipment" <tentec at contesting.com>
Sent: Monday, May 01, 2006 9:10 AM
Subject: Re: [TenTec] Orion as AM radio


>
> You are so right! How about Hall. HT37 or HT32....?? In my AM/CW days I never really had a heavy rig. I had 
> a Hall. HT40 Xmtr and Lafayette Receiver. My main stay station was a Gonset G66B receiver and  a Elmac 
> AF67.Had a ball with it an worked loads of DX back in the 60s
>
> Paul, KD3JF
> Glen Burnie, MD
> FM19qd (Map Grid Square)
>
>
>
> ----- Original Message ----
> From: Steven Moore <scm at copper.net>
> To: Discussion of Ten-Tec Equipment <tentec at contesting.com>
> Sent: Monday, May 1, 2006 9:34:40 AM
> Subject: Re: [TenTec] Orion as AM radio
>
>
> I owned a dx100 and several of its hundred pound cousins. Other than selling them on ebay for big $ I can't
> think of any reason to have them back including am.
>
> Same goes for the hallis and nationals.
>
> Steve  wd0ct
>
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "Rob Atkinson, K5UJ" <k5uj at hotmail.com>
> To: <tentec at contesting.com>
> Sent: Monday, May 01, 2006 7:59 AM
> Subject: [TenTec] Orion as AM radio
>
>
>>
>>>>If I wanted to get into AM operation, no solid state rig could ever
>>>>satisfy me. I'd want a big tube transmitter. <<<
>>
>> There's this mythical idea hams seem to have, that decent AM can only happen
>> with a big plate modulated tube rig.   I have no idea where this comes from,
>> given the fact that broadcasters are ditching this techology for solid state
>> transmitters as fast as they can.  Turn on your medium wave AM receiver and
>> tune around to any radio station.  Odds are 3:1 that you are hearing a solid
>> state rig, especially if you are tuned into a big 50 kw station.  About the
>> only ones left running primary vacuum rigs are the dinky daytimers that
>> aren't generating enough revenue to go solid state.
>>
>> the best sounding ham AM rigs out there now are solid state, either class E,
>> dsp generated AM from the flex radio, or low level modulated exciters
>> driving amps.  a few guys are doing well with old tube broadcast rigs and
>> globe kings, gold dust twins etc. but for every one of them there are 100
>> with dx100s who are unbearable.
>>
>> rob / k5uj
>>
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