[TenTec] When did Ten-tec switch to Schottky diode ring mixers?

George K3GP k3gp at arrl.net
Sun May 20 16:11:45 EDT 2007


Kevin Purcell wrote:
> Excellent. Thanks Steve for that data point. And Don, NN8B, who  
> replied too. Both have the Corsair 2.
> 
> So they had switched by 1986.
> 
> Anyone with an original Corsair (Corsair 1, so to speak)? I think  
> that might be the rig they made the switch to schottky diodes.
> 
> It would just take a second to check the schematic in the manual on  
> the RF Mixer board :-)
> 

My original corsair manual lists the mixer diodes on the RF mixer board 
(D9 thru D12) as MBD-101  which checks out to be 7v low noise shottky 
diodes.

333-3333
George K3GP



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