[TenTec] Delta II -- Good/Bad

[Walt Amos]

What do YOU operate? Phone or Cw ? It is a ok phone rig but the display 
fails after a few years and you need a flashlight to read it. It can be 
replaced but TT does NOT have any or do it, so you have to get the display 
from All Electronics and cut it to size, paint the cut with clear finger 
nail polish and pull the old one out and insert the new one. The panel drops 
forward to do this. Change the memory battery at the same time.

For CW you need to set the pass band to about 10 o'clock for the narrow cw 
to sound right. An external DSP is very useful with it! A 12 volt computer 
fan can be set behind it or even screwed to the heat sink and there is a 
place on the back to plug it in. There is a mod to the IF by some Canadian 
that makes the AGC work right, but you need to be a bit gutty to tackle 
that! IT IS NO OMNI 6 for sure ! But if you can get one for $400 or so you 
got a bargain!

Walt K8CV Royal Oak, MI.


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Bill Acito W1PA" <w1pa at hotmail.com>
To: <tentec at contesting.com>
Sent: Thursday, June 03, 2010 7:27 PM
Subject: [TenTec] Delta II -- Good/Bad


> I've read the 8 reviews on eham, so I'll pose this to those of you who 
> have
> the rig and use it on a regular basis: Why should I own this rig?
>
> Let me re-phrase that: Considering the rigs Omni VI and older, is there a
> reason to own this rig, versus say an Omni VI, a Corsair, an Omni C, or 
> the
> original Delta, other than the general coverage receiver? Anything 
> "special"
> or "classic" about this rig? Was this a "gem" despite the QST review?
>
> I wanna hear it from the folks that own them now, or owned them and sold
> them...  not second hand. (I have a VI+, OmniC, Argosy, Scout, and a 
> couple
> of Yaesiconwood rigs with general coverage RX's, btw.)
>
> Bill W1PA
>
>
>
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