[TenTec] In praise of older technology

[Mike Bryce]

Oh that’s a hoot!

Last fall, I had an old Drake TR-3 on the air. Those three 12JB6’s were screaming, plopping out almost 200 watts into the antenna. 

Long story short. I answered a guy’s CQ on 40 SSB. We exchanged the usual stuff—told me he had a IC7800— and that I was drifting up at 12 cycles. I asked him about his radio.
He told me it had dual receivers, pan adapters, USB interfaces and a 21 inch monitor. I asked if that thing had RIT.
He said it did. There were in fact three RIT on each band along with dual watch thingiees.

I ask him to turn it on, so he could follow me ‘round until this thing got warm.

Kinda got po at me for asking him to do that. Maybe he thought it’s wear his radio out?


Mike Bryce, WB8VGE
 the heathkit shop
SunLight energy systems
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On Feb 22, 2014, at 6:48 PM, Ed Purvis <wa4njy at yahoo.com> wrote:

> I had a Flex owner tell me I was 13 hertz off frequency.  I should have asked him to help me convert that to cycles so I could adjust my radio.
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