New Toy!!!!

[W5IEI]

http://swap.qth.com/view_ad.php?counter=819583

I made a deal for this station yesterday,and will send a check today.
This will be my third Omni V.
I think I'll do the Inrad 2.8 treatment on this one.
If it's as clean as he says,it should be a nice one.
The 238 tuner is excellent as well,I;m using one now.
Mike

[W3WN]

http://swap.qth.com/view_ad.php?counter=819583

I made a deal for this station yesterday,and will send a check today.
This will be my third Omni V.
I think I'll do the Inrad 2.8 treatment on this one.
If it's as clean as he says,it should be a nice one.
The 238 tuner is excellent as well,I;m using one now.
Mike

Nice.

I traded by TS-480SAT for an Omni VI+. Rig came a week ago, but I only had time to get it all hooked up this weekend. It came equipped with a bunch of Inrad filters, boy, does it sound nice.

My poor Corsair is temporarily on the sidelines until I build a new shelf in the shack for the VI.

[KG4CGC]

Scroll down to the lineage section. Interesting read overall for the TT noob.

http://home.comcast.net/~w8kc/lineage.htm

[W3WN]

Scroll down to the lineage section. Interesting read overall for the TT noob.

http://home.comcast.net/~w8kc/lineage.htm

Who's a noob?

There's a whole Wiki on Ten-Tec, although I don't have the link here at work. And I know there was a Virtual Ten-Tec museum online, but the owner of it became a SK a few years back & I don't know if the site is still active.

When I worked at the (now defunct) Westech Electronics, we sold a lot of Ten-Tec gear. I never cared for the Argonaut 509 or 515, but then I thought the Argosy & Argosy-D (aka Argosy II) was a better QRP rig, more versatile that the Argonauts. The rig I always wanted, though, was a Corsair. For the money, it outperformed the TS-930S where it counted, on the air, even though it didn't have all the bells and whistles.

Sadly, too many wanted the bells & whistles.

And when the Omni's replaced the Corsairs as the top of the line rigs, I really wanted one.

Today's shack now has a Corsair II, an Omni VI+, and a heavily butchered, er, modified PM-2B. (Yeah, yeah, I know, I know, I'll get some pictures taken!) Had a Triton IV for awhile, but had to sell that when I downsized the shack a few years ago after I lost my job *sigh*

Still hoping to get my hands on an Argosy one day, although you have to be careful, as the finals for that rig turned out to be made of Unobtanium. And a friend is considering disposing of his Argonaut V, so if he decides to do so and we can work something out...

[KG4CGC]

Who's a noob?

I am a noob to Ten Tec.
That's who.

[W3WN]

I am a noob to Ten Tec.
That's who.

Oh. OK. I won't argue.

[KG4CGC]

I have to run out and find a 12vdc 20 amp circuit breaker per Ten Tec's instructions for the power cable for the Corsair.
Automotive shops should be the ticket.

[W3WN]

I have to run out and find a 12vdc 20 amp circuit breaker per Ten Tec's instructions for the power cable for the Corsair.
Automotive shops should be the ticket.

I'm not so sure about that.

The breakers used to be made by a company called Airpax. I believe they're now available through another source, but I can't think of it off-hand.

Ask on the Ten Tec Reflector (located on contesting.com). Better to get the right part. It's a good rig, but who wants to spend money fixing problems that could have been avoided?

[kb2vxa]

Automotive breakers are usually self reset after a cool down period, do you really like surprises? You'll find plenty here, take your pick.
http://www.google.com/products?q=12V...ed=0CD4QrQQwAw

[KG4CGC]

It just needs to be 10x faster than a fuse. It needs to trip in one tenth the time it takes a fuse to heat up to trip.