[TenTec] In praise of older technology

[Brian Carling]

Ed you must be talking about those XE stations tuning up on SSB on the low end of 40m. They groan "hoooooo-la" while they dip the plate control !
SOP

Best regards - Bry Carling



> On Feb 22, 2014, at 8:29 PM, Ed Purvis <wa4njy at yahoo.com> wrote:
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> There are some on hi-fi sideband that I am not sure they are talking or their stomach is making noise.
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> From: Steve Berg <wa9jml at frontier.com>
> To: Discussion of Ten-Tec Equipment <tentec at contesting.com> 
> Sent: Saturday, February 22, 2014 8:12 PM
> Subject: Re: [TenTec] In praise of older technology
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> As part of my collection, I have Drake 2B receiver and a Gonset GSB100 
> phasing exciter.  One night I wound up in a round table with a bunch of 
> HiFi SSB aficionados 0n 40 meters.  These guys were running advanced 
> equalizers and high-end microphones. Then had the latest Oriental 
> Transceivers. They even had audio spectrum analyzers to check out each 
> others signals.  So, I asked for an evaluation, and they were quite 
> complimentary.  So, they asked what I was running, and I told them a 
> 1957 vintage phasing exciter with a D104 mic.  They were amazed!  Sure, 
> it drifts, and it is hard to get it right on frequency by zerobeating 
> the receiver BFO with the carrier on the exciter.  But it is a lot of 
> fun to use.
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> Steve WA9JML
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