[TenTec] 610 Has started shipping today

[Walter Hopper]

As a veteran of the Korean War, I can attest to the capability of the
BC-610.  I was a cw intercept op with the Army Security Agency and was
stationed in Germany during the Berlin blockade.  Little transmitting
we did... however, if needed we had a complete mobile/portable RTTY
station which consisted of a BC-610, a Hammarlund Super Pro
receiver...  along with model 15 RTTY printer, typing perforater,
bomar head (not sure of spelling) and tape distributor.
If we were sending traffic..  we had the capability, using wire
antennas, to communicate with far off places at 60 wpm running a
pre-perferorated tape. I can't remember our output power, but I think
it was 500 watts continuous.  The BC-610 was a real work horse.  All
of this equipment was mounted in a van on the rear of a 2 1/2 ton
truck.  The truck towed a 10 kw generator and we had plenty of fuel in
another trailer.  We also had a whip antenna mounted on the rear of
the van for quick operation. Incidentally, the Super Pro was the
predecessor to the R390 receiver.

You guys have brought back memories which go back 55 years.  At that
time, I would have found it inconceivable that  capability could be
placed on a card table.  Times certainly change. A Jupiter, laptop and
a solid state amp could do the same thing.

Walt K5VV



On Sat, Aug 29, 2009 at 9:59 PM, <d.e.warnick at comcast.net> wrote:
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> No, it's no where to be found there
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> Dave
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> WA3MKB
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> ----- Original Message -----
> From: kc9cdt at aol.com
> To: tentec at contesting.com
> Sent: Saturday, August 29, 2009 9:32:46 PM GMT -05:00 US/Canada Eastern
> Subject: Re: [TenTec] 610 Has started shipping today
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> Dave,
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> have you found it on TT's web site...I have not???
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> 73,
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> Lee, KC9CDT
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: d.e.warnick at comcast.net
> To: Discussion of Ten-Tec Equipment <tentec at contesting.com>
> Sent: Sat, Aug 29, 2009 5:01 pm
> Subject: Re: [TenTec] 610 Has started shipping today
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> Sorry to step back to the original topic of this thread, but I just got my new
> issue of CQ and the TenTec 610 is pictured on page 28 (bottom right) with a note
> about it on page 30 (top left).
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> Dave
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> WA3MKB
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> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "JAMES HANLON" <knjhanlon at msn.com>
> To: "ken d brown" <ken.d.brown at hawaiiantel.net>, "Discussion of Ten-Tec
> Equipment" <tentec at contesting.com>
> Sent: Saturday, August 29, 2009 3:49:34 PM GMT -05:00 US/Canada Eastern
> Subject: Re: [TenTec] 610 Has started shipping today
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> B&W made the antenna tuner for the BC-610. ?According to Jack Williamson it was
> the BC-939. ?But they didn't build any BC-610's. ?
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> The BC-375, mentioned earlier as the antenna tuner, was a transmitter in its own
> right. ?It had a 211 oscillator, 211 power amplifier, a pair of 211's in the
> modulator, and a 10Y speech amplifier. ?It used a bunch on plug-in tuning units.
> ?It flew in bomber-sized WW2 aircraft like the B-17 and B24. ?It was powered by
> a 24 volt dynamotor.
>
> Jim, W8KGI
> ??----- Original Message -----
> ??From: Ken Brown<mailto:ken.d.brown at hawaiiantel.net>
> ??To: Discussion of Ten-Tec Equipment<mailto:tentec at contesting.com>
> ??Sent: Friday, August 28, 2009 6:46 PM
> ??Subject: Re: [TenTec] 610 Has started shipping today
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> ??Some BC-610s were made by Hallicrafters. There was at least one other
> ??manufacturer, I think it was Barker and Williamson. There may have been
> ??others too. One version had round corners and the other had square
> ??corners. One version the power supply had potted transformers in square
> ??cornered black cans, including the plate (anode) supply transformer.
> ??Another version had more like an open frame type plate transformer, yet
> ??the end casings were cast iron, sort of like bell housings, and there
> ??was potting material in there. The other smaller potted transformers
> ??were cylindrical cans instead of rectangular with square corners.
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> ??They had plug-in tank coils and plug-in oscillators. Space for three
> ??plug-in oscillators, which could be selected
> by a switch. Only one tank
> ??coil could be installed at a time.
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> ??DE N6KB
> ??> The BC-610 was a large HF AM transmitter built by Hallicrafters with a pair
> ??> of 250-TH tubes or something similar in the PA. ?Just the power transformer
> ??> alone ?weighed over 100 pounds. ?The entire transmitter probably weighed 500
>
> ??> or 600 hundred pounds.
> ??> ?
> ??> ?
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