[TenTec] A Fun Day with Ham Radio, and a Question about Portable Operating

[Rick - DJ0IP / NJ0IP]

Jeff, right, I forgot all about the K2, and I even owned a couple of them.
I never used them for operations out of a tent and from motorbike battery,
though.
I guess I should have!

Mike, the IC-703 draws 1.2A on receive at 13.8v.  TERRIBLE.
But if you run it off of 9.6v, it only needs about 400mA.
Still a bit high.

Let me put current drain into perspective:  try to run an entire Field Day
Contest (24 hours) off of a motorbike battery.
I have done it several times.  I have always run out of power shortly before
the end of the contest.  Once, using the Argonaut 509, the power ran out 30
minutes before the end of the contest.  I still managed to take "First place
overall in European" in QRP class.  I was operating on a mountain in
Liechtenstein (HB0).  I simply rolled down the hill with the bike to start
it.  If the battery had died a couple hours earlier, I surely would not have
won the contest.

100mA extra receive current is going to deplete the battery an hour or two
earlier.
It's "that" critical.

73
Rick, DJ0IP

-----Original Message-----
From: TenTec [mailto:tentec-bounces at contesting.com] On Behalf Of Mike Bryce
Sent: Saturday, April 13, 2013 6:46 PM
To: Discussion of Ten-Tec Equipment
Subject: Re: [TenTec] A Fun Day with Ham Radio, and a Question about
Portable Operating

Don't forget about Icom's 703. Don't recall the current drain, but it too is
designed to operate within specs on a 9 volt battery (The r/c car battery
not the transistor battery)


Mike, WB8VGE
SunLight Energy Systems
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On Apr 13, 2013, at 12:31 PM, WA4VEC at aol.com wrote:

> The K2 can be set up to use as little as 120 - 150 mA on receive and 
> in normal mode it draws 180 -250 mA.  It also works with as low as 9
volts input.
> 
> In a message dated 4/13/2013 12:04:41 P.M. Eastern Daylight Time, 
> Rick at DJ0IP.de writes:
> 
> Jeff,
> 
> What other rigs are there out there that work  80/40/20/15/10 and 
> possibly even 160, yet require only a couple hundred mA on  RX?
> I only know of the KX3, with its 250mA.
> 
> I'm sure there are loads  of rigs with only a couple of bands, but I 
> don't know of any other all band  rigs like that.
> 
> 73
> Rick,  DJ0IP
> 
> 
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