[TenTec] Orion 2 situation

[chacuff at cableone.net]

Jim,  You remember quite accurately.

 

I’ve lived here since about 1968.  Dad retired from the Air Force at Keesler.  He was an air traffic controller...I spent many hours with him in the control tower.  If you were here around 1970 then you saw first had the remnants of Hurrican Camille.  What a mess.

 

Yep we had a Taco Bell in Gulfport...corner of 25th Ave and Pass Rd.  Ate there a lot years ago too..  Edgewater mall is still there...modernized especially after going under water during our most recent major hurricane Katrina.  The KarmelKorn shop merged with Orange Julius and I think is still there but smaller.  

 

Do you remember any of your instructors names.  Have a good friend whose Dad taught Electronics at Keesler...Larry Patterson.  He was a civilian contractor.  Keesler has been like home to me.

 

I plan to retire somewhere else though....I have come to hate the Hurricane threat and the Humidity here....

 

Looking at East TN.  My Dads family was from there....we vacation there and love the area.

 

Good to talk to you Jim...  Where do you call Home?  Just had my Son move to Lancaster CA after graduating college.  Working for NASA at Edwards AFB.




Cecil Acuff
Gulfport MS
K5DL


From: Jim Lowman
Sent: ‎July‎ ‎1‎, ‎2013 ‎6‎:‎56‎ ‎PM
To: Discussion of Ten-Tec Equipment
Subject: Re: [TenTec] Orion 2 situation


Thanks for the explanation, Cecil.  It makes sense.

Gulfport, MS eh?  Well it's been a lot of years.  I was in 
electronics/radar school at Keesler AFB from September, 1970 to May, 1971.

We were newlyweds then, and would drive over to Gulfport the back way to 
go to the Taco Bell, of all places.  How little we knew then!
More often than not, we'd stop at the mall on the way back to Biloxi.  
They had a KarmelKorn shop.

73 de Jim - AD6CW

On 7/1/2013 4:21 PM, chacuff at cableone.net wrote:
> Higher output from the device before distortion occurs.   You can only get so much power out of a PA with a 12V power supply before you drive it into distortion.  100W is pushing it at 12 v so distortion occurs...that same PA with a supply of 48V is capable of providing that same level of power very cleanly....  There are peaks that exceed the supplies capabilities at 12 V
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> I guess a very simplistic parallel would be battery operated power tools...(I know tech guys...poor choice) you may have noticed over the years that they went from 12V batteries to 14.4 to 18 and higher voltages...because of the limited amount of power available at a given voltage.
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> I guess if we all ran our 100W PEP radio’s at 50w PEP the problem would be greatly reduced because we wouldn't bump into the power supplies limitations and resulting distortion.
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> Same concept applies to the Mixers listed below...if you want to drive them hard you need to have enough supply voltage and current available to keep their output clean.
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> Hope that helps a bit...
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> Thanks,
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> Cecil Acuff
> Gulfport MS
> K5DL
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