[TenTec] In praise of older technology

[R. Eric Sluder - W9WLW]

I'd say so... but that's not the case for my AL-80a since it only has one 3-500z in it.  The drive requirement varies some for me... and I was just sharing a ballpark figure. I watch the meters very close.  


Eric
W9WLW

On March 1, 2014 5:53:38 PM EST, GARY HUBER <glhuber at msn.com> wrote:
|When 33W input takes you to 1500W out, 30W initial is very aggressive.
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|-----Original Message----- 
|From: R. Eric Sluder - W9WLW
|Sent: Saturday, March 01, 2014 4:27 PM
|To: Discussion of Ten-Tec Equipment ; Rick - DJ0IP / NJ0IP ;
|'Discussion of 
|Ten-Tec Equipment'
|Subject: Re: [TenTec] In praise of older technology
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|Rick,
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|I do a 25/30 watt drive tune up for resonance as well.  Helps my very
|old 
|AL-80a not grown so much. :-)
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|73 - Eric
|W9WLW
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|<snip>
||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.
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||Dip?  40 years ago, maybe!
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||73 - Rick, DJ0IP
||(Nr. Frankfurt am Main)
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||-----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
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||The only thing I ever "dip" is a little chew.
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||73
||Bob,  K4TAX
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||----- 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
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||
||> Ed you must be talking about those XE stations tuning up on SSB on
||the low
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||> end of 40m. They groan "hoooooo-la" while they dip the plate control
||!
||> SOP
||>
||> Best regards - Bry Carling
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||>
||>> 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.
||>>
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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.
||>>
||>> Steve WA9JML
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