[TenTec] O.T.: Question to Android Tablet users

[rick@dj0ip.de]

Hi Al,

Here in DL people know how to drive, so 95% of all cars are a manual shift.
Automatics are exotics here.

In fact my next planned outing (maybe next week) is SOTA, not COTA, but to a
mountain where I can drive all the way to the top.  I can park with the car
facing slightly down hill.

Still, I'm searching for a general solution, not something that always
requires parking on a hill.
I'm sure there is a way and I will find it.  This re-typing of logs when I
get home is a PITA.

I have one more year to work (for Spiderbeam), then I plan to fully retire
and THEN I want to be in the field at least once every week.  I am starting
now to plan how to optimize for that.

My 25+ year old Scout has been a good radio but it has to go.  Its RX is no
longer good enough for today's QRM, it has no CAT interface and no built-in
ATU.  I will replace it with a much more modern, SDR-DSP radio.
Like the Scout, the replacement must have 50w, low battery drain but a CAT
interface for logging and an ATU.

Since nobody else would build me such a radio, I have decided to simply
d-i-y, and will bring out my own brand of hf radios next month. As you guys
know, I have complained long enough about dirty transmitters.  I will bring
a clean transmitter to market. 

The first transceiver I will announce is just a QRP rig but the second one
that follows shortly will be a 50w Scout replacement with built-in ATU. Like
the Scout, only 350 mA current drain on RX. These are to accompany the all
band antennas I have designed.  So I will be ready to head for the lake for
a day trip or over-nighter!

For now, the Scout is still my work-horse.

My new radios will be posted on my web site, www.aerial-51.com - hopefully
beginning tomorrow (waiting on the photographer).

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



-----Original Message-----
From: Al Gulseth [mailto:wb5jnc at centurytel.net] 
Sent: Sunday, October 09, 2016 10:22 PM
To: tentec at contesting.com
Cc: rick at dj0ip.de
Subject: Re: [TenTec] O.T.: Question to Android Tablet users

That's why you need a vehicle with a manual transmission (or one of the
older design automatics with a rear pump so it can be push or pull started)
for your outings and that you make sure the vehicle is parked with the nose
pointed downhill at your operating site HI HI!!

73, Al
On Sun October 9 2016 2:58:23 pm rick at dj0ip.de wrote:
> I don't want to risk running down the starter battery.