[TenTec] In praise of older technology

[Rick - DJ0IP / NJ0IP]

"Dip" was pre-watt meter days.
No need to dip anymore.

Just tune for maximum smoke!

Precisely, running full drive power, you first tune the PLATE for max smoke,
then repeat the sequence of slowly advancing the LOAD and peaking the PLATE
for max smoke.
If you reach the point where increasing the LOAD and peaking the plate
brings no more increase in max smoke, but just an increase in Ig, then
you've gone too far. Back it off.

The idea is to find the exact point where max smoke is reached with min LOAD
that can achieve it - and of course all of this is always subject to the Ig
not exceeding max specs.

Piece of cake.

The only thing I do different in practice is, I first tune for max smoke
with about 30w of drive, just to get everything in resonance, then I proceed
as described above.

Dip?  40 years ago, maybe!

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


-----Original Message-----
From: TenTec [mailto:tentec-bounces at contesting.com] On Behalf Of Bob McGraw
- K4TAX
Sent: Saturday, March 01, 2014 10:00 PM
To: Discussion of Ten-Tec Equipment
Subject: Re: [TenTec] In praise of older technology

The only thing I ever "dip" is a little chew.

73
Bob,  K4TAX


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Brian Carling" <bcarling at cfl.rr.com>
To: "Ed Purvis" <wa4njy at yahoo.com>; "Discussion of Ten-Tec Equipment" 
<tentec at contesting.com>
Sent: Saturday, March 01, 2014 2:18 PM
Subject: Re: [TenTec] In praise of older technology


> 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:
>>
>> There are some on hi-fi sideband that I am not sure they are talking or 
>> their stomach is making noise.
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> ________________________________
>> 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
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> 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.
>>
>> Steve WA9JML
>>
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