[TenTec] F/S Tne Tec Orion II Model 566......Very good, but it doesn't do MARS

Bwana Bob wb2vuf at verizon.net
Mon Oct 18 19:02:35 PDT 2010


  That's good. I'm not a CAP or MARS member, but I suspect that being 
required to buy the more expensive equipment killed off HF operation at 
the CAP squadron level. I guess that also keeps Ten Tec in the running 
for MARS.

             73,

             Bob WB2VUF

On 10/14/2010 12:19 AM, w8au at sssnet.com wrote:
> At 06:19 PM 10/13/2010, Bwana Bob wrote:
>>    I thought that all MARS gear now has to meet a 20 ppm, I think,  NTIA
>> frequency stability spec, which requires the purchase of
>> commercial/military gear such as Harris or Motorola.
> There was talk of that two years ago.  CAP now requires it, since a
> lot of their folks know nothing about radio adjustment. And maybe
> Army MARS was thinking of it, but the talk has died down...Nothing
> mentioned in the past year.  Navy/Marine Corps MARS was not promoting it.
>
> Perry NNN0VNO
>
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