[TenTec] Tuning Knobs and S meter

[Ron Castro]

When you go into transmit, but with no power out, does the meter drop to 
zero?  If it doesn't, I would suspect the mechanical zero.  If it does, it 
sounds like something more serious!

         Ron  N6IE
      www.N6IE.com


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Wayne Whitman" <wwhitman at fastmail.fm>
To: "TenTec List" <tentec at contesting.com>
Sent: Sunday, December 23, 2007 4:50 PM
Subject: Re: [TenTec] Tuning Knobs and S meter


> Thanks for the advice Ron.  It still reads s-5 with the rf gain at 100
> and no antenna.  Tried changing the agc threshold - no change.  Doesn't
> make any difference what mode the agc is set to either.
> I think it has been like this since I got it new about a year ago.  I
> just assumed it was very generous until I started switching rigs and
> noticed it was s-5 with no antenna.
> Whatever happened to the boat anchors with a mechanical meter zero?
> Well, even my Drake 4B twins don't have that, hi.  But I think my
> Hammarlund HQ-110 did.
>
> 73,
> Wayne
> K4ELO
> k4elo at fastmail.fm
>
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