[TenTec] 610 Has started shipping today

[Bill Rowlett]

I saw it listed as to starting to ship, but not pictured.

 

Bill  KC4ATU
 
> Date: Sun, 30 Aug 2009 02:59:21 +0000
> From: d.e.warnick at comcast.net
> To: tentec at contesting.com
> Subject: Re: [TenTec] 610 Has started shipping today
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> No, it's no where to be found there 
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> 
> Dave 
> 
> 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??? 
> 
> 73, 
> 
> 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 
> 
> WA3MKB 
> 
> 
> ----- 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 
> 
> 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. ? 
> 
> 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. 
> 
> ??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. 
> 
> ??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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