[TenTec] SOTA RADIO

[rick@dj0ip.de]

Maestro: a mere $1000 + postage get one delivered to your door.  :-(

Barry, as for the battery, well you would call the mountains I climb just a
hill.
But they're on the SOTA list as a mountain.
So I want to take some power and a battery up.

One of them has old castle ruins on it.
I can drive to within 15 minutes walking distance and there is a dirt road
going up.
It not only counts points for SOTA, it also counts for Castles On The Air
(COTA).
I will run 25 watts from there with my Aerial-51 antenna and bend a few
S-meter needles! (hi)

I like to have a good signal when I go places.  I put good antennas high
into the air.
In this respect I am thinking about building something like a modified golf
bag carrier to pull behind me with Scout and battery and antenna pole.

I am also looking for a very small radio for the occasion when I would go up
a real mountain.

73 - Rick, DJ0IP
(Nr. Frankfurt, Germany)



-----Original Message-----
From: TenTec [mailto:tentec-bounces at contesting.com] On Behalf Of Barry N1EU
Sent: Thursday, March 17, 2016 10:43 AM
To: Discussion of Ten-Tec Equipment
Subject: Re: [TenTec] SOTA RADIO

Great point and I think Scott Robbins W4PA bears mentioning in that vain.
He's one of THE top cw contesters in the world.

Flex has already come around with the Maestro, although all of us old
Seinfeld fans chuckle when we hear about "the Maestro."  ;-)

Barry N1EU

On Thu, Mar 17, 2016 at 8:30 AM, rick at dj0ip.de <Rick at dj0ip.de> wrote:

> EXCELLENT POINT JIM:  having the owner or a senior engineer who 
> actually uses the gear himself is priceless!
>
> I have thought for years now that none of the Japanese companies have 
> anyone in a senior position actually using this stuff.  Stuff like key 
> clicks (Yaesu), ALC spikes (Kenwood) and user unfriendly menus would 
> not exist if they did.
>
> LONG AGO, Al Kahn and Jack Burchfield were contesters.
>
> Al was not only big into DX contests, he and W4KFC actually rescued 
> CQWW DX contest from going under when CQ Magazine changed management 
> and was run by people not interested in the contests.
>
> Jack preferred the SS contests which back then ran at a faster pace 
> than the DX contests.
>
> Their "likes" were reflected in the radios they designed, built and sold.
>
> We all get old; when the Argo6 was designed, I think Jack failed to 
> recognize that the younger ones among us (and Jim who thinks he's 
> still
> young) want stuff they can run up mountains with and run off of batteries.
>
> IMO this is also the problem FLEX has.  Gerald was never a contester 
> and I think the new Sun Expert MB-1 and Icom's IC-7300 will prove he 
> was totally wrong in thinking and preaching that radios do not need knobs.
>
> On the bright side, Mike (Dishop) is a long time Ten-Tec user and 
> loves his Orion.
> We know that Ten-Tec is listening to us here.
> I believe Ten-Tec will be around for a while.
>
> 73 - Rick, DJ0IP
> (Nr. Frankfurt, Germany)
>
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: TenTec [mailto:tentec-bounces at contesting.com] On Behalf Of Jim 
> Brown
> Sent: Thursday, March 17, 2016 9:07 AM
> To: tentec at contesting.com
> Subject: Re: [TenTec] SOTA RADIO
>
> On Thu,3/17/2016 12:38 AM, rick at dj0ip.de wrote:
> > I have a 12 Ah Li-Fe-Po battery that weighs only 4 lbs. It runs at 
> > about
> 13v. In comparison, my 9 Ah Gel battery for my motor scooter weighs 
> about twice as much.
>
> Yes. if you have to carry it up a trail, LiFePO4 batteries are 
> wonderful. I loaned by KX3 plus KXPA100 to AF6RT, who was hiking 2 
> miles with 2,000 elevation change with W6JTI to light up a rare 6M 
> grid. W6GJB and I both loaned him 20A 13V LiFePO4 batteries. They 
> didn't drain mine in a day, and never touched Glen's.
>
> Wayne Burdick, N6KR, one of the two owners of Elecraft and the chief 
> engineer, is a backpacker at heart. All of his designs squeeze current 
> draw to the absolute minimum, sometimes too much to suit guys using 
> his gear at home. :)
>
> With the KX3, I recommend that users set the built-in RXEQ to roll off 
> everything below 400 Hz to maximize headroom in the earphones.
>
> 73, Jim K9YC
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