[TenTec] Ten Tec noise blanker recommendations

[Lee WA3FIY]

Here's my view on your question John.

Argosy - The Argosy, at least the later Argosy and all Argosy II's have a great noise blanker 
from my experience.  Had terrible power line noise for several years and during that time my 
favorite rigs were the Argosy and the Triton IV.  Of course the Triton is out because it does 
not have any WARC bands and the Argosy has only 30 meters.  The down side of the Argosy 
is the lack of RF gain control.   There is a mod to install one.  I got around it by putting a 18db 
attenuator in line between the t/r switching circuit and the RF board.  Switched it in and out 
with the push pull power switch on the volume control.

Early Corsair - I'm not sure about the original Corsair as I only had (and still have) a C II.  As I 
recall, when first got my C II, an early serial number unit, it had a very good noise blanker.  
However, at that time we had trouble with the Russian Woodpecker radar pulses and 
conventional noise blankers were not very effective.  Ten-Tec sent an upgraded noise 
blanker board to registered owners of the C II of which I was one.  I swapped boards and the 
new one worked better with the woodpecker.  BUT it did not work very well on other noise.  

This all from memory so take it for what it's worth.   Anyone else get the upgrade noise 
blanker board from TT?  Please jump in and give us your experience.



73,

-Lee-

WA3FIY

On 10 Mar 2012 at 22:21, John wrote:

> I am suffering from some rather bad noise on 17m (the worst band for
> it) and on other bands from time to time. I am working on trying to
> eliminate it at its source, but there is a limit to what one can do.
> So, I am thinking of trying to pick up an older HF rig that will be as
> quiet as possible. Here are my thoughts on what I want:
> 
> 1. Solid State
> 2. Ham bands only (better, tighter band pass filters)
> 3. Non-synthesized-no phase noise
> 4. Good noise blanker that takes out line noise and other electronic
> crud 5. $400 or less
>