[TenTec] Hercules II Problem

[Jim Brown]

On 10/2/2012 7:56 PM, John Farler wrote:
> But I hooked the amp itself to an 80 amp MFJ Switcher through
> the mobile cable.  The amp worked in that it amplified the
> signal with good out and fidelity

Many Herc II owners, me included, have never owned the Ten Tec power 
supply.  For a while, I used a pair of Astron 70A supplies with their 
control voltages bused together. That worked fine, but they are HEAVY!  
Several years ago, I loaned my Herc II to a friend who wanted an amp for 
a DX trip. He returned it with a 100A industrial quality switching power 
supply that he had bought for it.  I haven't used the Astrons since. :)

I just packed the Herc II to take it on an expedition to Tehama county 
(near Red Bluff, about 200 miles N of San Francisco)  for the California 
QSO Party this weekend.  If you work NI6T, you'll be working Garry 
(NI6T), me, N3ZZ, K6MI, or W6GJB. The rigs will be 3 K3s, driving that 
Herc II and a couple of KPA500s.

CQP is a fun weekend.  Part of the contest is attempting to work all 58 
CA counties, and every year several dozen hams do that. Some counties 
are quite remote, with no hams living there, but the major CA contest 
clubs make a serious effort to make sure that every county has a serious 
QSO party operation.

And, if that isn't enough, you'll get a Worked All California Counties 
certificate if you work them all during the contest and turn in your 
log!  No need to send cards. Dennis, W1UE, has managed to work all the 
counties in the first six hours of the contest, and worked all of them 
from Jamaica last year.

73, Jim K9YC