[TenTec] Titan 425 Initial Tune-Up settings - high VSWR

[CSM(r) Gary Huber]

Jim,  I believe you have the answer as my TITAN 425, S/N 425-00516 (labeled 
as an export model) was sent back to TenTec for warranty work and upgrades 
shortly after I purchased it new from AD0S. The TITAN 425 manual I have is 
considerably different from the one I recently downloaded from Ten Tec's 
obsolete manual page. The Tune and Load control setting I see on my TITAN 
425 in actual service are closer to the initial settings suggested in the 
downloaded (newer) manual than in the original manual.


73 es DX,

Gary - AB9M

-----Original Message----- 
From: Jim Brown
Sent: Wednesday, November 24, 2010 7:12 PM
To: tentec at contesting.com
Subject: Re: [TenTec] Titan 425 Initial Tune-Up settings - high VSWR

On 11/24/2010 2:21 PM, CSM(r) Gary Huber wrote:
> By switching the Titan bandswitch to 80, the LOAD setting became 3, TUNE 
> stayed at 5.5, FREQ stayed at 3.8 – 3.9 and the VSWR dropped to 1.1 to 1.

At some point, changes were made with the values of the capacitors
around the bandswitch in the output stage. There is one less capacitor
there than is shown in the manual. With the 3 Titan 425s I own,I've
always used the 80M settings for all of 80/75M.  It works fine.

73, Jim K9YC


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