[TenTec] Pegasus Auto Tuner
John Oglesby
john91 at charter.net
Wed Jun 2 19:16:27 PDT 2010
I picked a Pegasus with an auto tuner and have been playing with it for
the last few days. I enabled the tuner and was expecting some relay
chatter and didn't get any. Now that I have a basic understanding of
how to maneuver around the settings I decided to investigate a little
more. I took off the cover and found a lose wire.
The radio has an LDG RT-11 auto tuner board rather than the PT-11 that I
seem to find referenced on Google. The tuner board has a set of header
pins similar to a normal Ten-Tec connector that is labeled J3. It has a
red wire from the radio guts soldered to pin 1 of this header instead of
a connector and the red wire appears to be the +13.8V line. There is a
green wire that was obviously soldered somewhere in the past, but is now
hanging loose. The only other wires are coax in/out lines.
My guess is that this is not an "authorized installation", but probably
is effectively the same as a PT-11 install without the proper
connectors. I can't find a schematic on line for the LDG unit, nor the
Pegasus for that matter.
Any ideas where the green wire goes?
Thanks and 73
John
N9RE
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