[TenTec] Extra class CW Sending Test

[Jim WA9YSD]

 My Dad and I had the honor  to bring home a TBK transmitter.  The rectifier was about 40 lbs being cooled by a 20 inch fan.  If we got all of 30 watts out of it.  It had  8 inch OD roller inductors made of 1/4 inch square wire.  The wiring harnesses had each individual wire was lead coated and soldered the the frame at least every 12 inches.

The VFO and how that was built would take a bit longer to describe.  to keep it short it had a 4 inch cylinder about 4 inches think on a worm gear that moved in and out of a coil that was wound with 5/8 inch flat ribbon wire that was 1/8 thick, was wound on the thin edge of the flat stock.

Stay on course, fight a good fight, and keep the faith.  Jim K9TF/WA9YSD