[TenTec] OT: Question about TS-590 possible problem

[Richards]

On 10/7/2012 1:10 PM, Rick - DJ0IP / NJ0IP wrote:
    I told them flat out it's their radios and swap them
> before wasting any brain cycles on other causes of the problem.

		That does not sound like good advice.

		Without more than your "memory" of
		a possible problem you sorta, but not
		really recall...  that is a pretty draconian
		solution for what might be a simple
		problem.

		You are just fishing for ideas, and have
		no way to verify your hunch, being so
		far detached from the field detail.

		I know lots of guys who use those radios
		in close proximity w=with other radios in
		- for contesting, etc. - with no problems
		like your friends are reporting.

		

> I have seen this problem about 20 years ago when we were setting up a
> multi-multi station (12 transmitters - 6 simultaneously) and we found out
> that a lot of radios are no good for this.  We used to have a list of bad
> radios that we simply did not bother to take along to the team contesting
> events.  It looks like the 590 will go onto that old list as well.


		I appears to me, you are leaping to
		conclusions with very	little hard data.

		You may be right... but I don't think you can
		prove it on the data presented here.
		
		WE HAD THE SAME PROBLEMS WITH OUR
		TEN-TEC AND ELECRAFT RADIOS... BUT
		YOU DID NOT SEEM TO THINK THE RADIOS
		WERE AT FAULT THEN...  and did not
		suggest we get new radios... even though
		you had no better solution than band pass
		filters.   I guess on the same argument, we
		should be selling all our TT gear because
		they make noise in the Elecraft ears...

		No... I think the Jury is still out on this
		problem.


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