[TenTec] Pegasus Auto Tuner

[N4PY2]

Both the Pegasus internal tuners were made by LDG.

Carl Moreschi N4PY
121 Little Bell Drive
Hays, NC 28635
www.n4py.com


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "John Graves" <jh.graves at verizon.net>
To: "Discussion of Ten-Tec Equipment" <tentec at contesting.com>
Sent: Thursday, June 03, 2010 8:33 AM
Subject: Re: [TenTec] Pegasus Auto Tuner


> John,
>
> I am far from an expert, but I seem to recall that TT used the LDG
> boards early on in both the Pegasus and the Jupiter.  I have seen a
> reference somewhere to the change over to TT tuners.  Also I don't know
>  where or how they changed/bought/whatever the tuner design.  My memory
> gets flakey but it also seems to me that LDG stopped offering the
> Jupiter  internal tuner about the same time.
>
> Cheer's
>
> John / WA1JG
>
> John Oglesby wrote:
>> 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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