[TenTec] A real post and question

[Vic Klein]

You are right. My old "Loudenboomer" is far from a QSK amp, but the 2 older
Ten Tec rigs I have used it on had an external amp NO contact with a delay
built in that holds the external relay keyed for a second or so after the
last CW character. On the Paragon, it seems to drop immediately when in SSB
and the PTT is released, though.

=Vic=
WA4THR
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To: 	"'Discussion of Ten-Tec Equipment'" <tentec at contesting.com>
Subject: 	Re: [TenTec] A real post and question
From: 	"Rick - DJ0IP / NJ0IP" <Rick at DJ0IP.de>
Reply-to: 	Discussion of Ten-Tec Equipment <tentec at contesting.com>
Date: 	Mon, 28 Jul 2014 15:25:19 +0200
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Vic, that will indeed take care of the interfacing, but if QSK CW is to be
used and you are driving it with an Eagle, the amp's T/R relay is going to
attempt to follow the keying, which it can't.  Therefore you need to add a
post-dit delay (hang) to the keying.  It should be a couple hundred ms.
Otherwise the racket will scare the dickens out of you.

Sometimes I forget the throw the switch on my model 913 to turn on the delay
and the moment I key CW, the amp starts dancing on the table!  ;-)

73 - Rick, DJ0IP
(Nr. Frankfurt am Main)