HUH: Your Orion won't work with both the internal keyer and the key line from the AUX I/O? Why? Mine does and I never thought about it much. I have mine set up with paddles directly to the key in on
John - you can slide the weights on most bugs out close to the end and slow it down to around 18 to 20 WPM. Some, like mine, have multiple weights that will allow slower speeds. And you can always ad
Well, consistant with is not proof of anything. Close - but consistant with does not win the cigar. Pay the man another two bits and take another shot. And "Table 3 is discouraging" followed by "When
Mario, there are no perfect radios. But there sure are a lot of deliberately imperfect radios on the air. Imperfect radios whose owners seem unjustifiably proud of - judging by the effort they make t
Just got a rather irate E-mail from a list member stating I had sent him a virus and demanding I fix it. There's a couple of problems with that beginning with the fact I have never sent the gent any
John, I seriously doubt the virii you are getting actually come from anyone on the Ten Tec list. I am firewalled and double virus protected but I still get Email with a "spoofed" address. Essentially
You may well not have done anything wrong. In coming up on a year with the Orion, there have been a couple of occasions when it appeared a flash memory or memory register was full of garbage. The sym
Hi Chris: I'm sure you will get all sorts of suggestions for this or that "wonderwire" or "wonder beam" but the fact is that on 75/80 only a gain (directional) antenna will outperform a simple dipole
Hmm, interesting hypothesis. I have not had my Orion lockup for at least several months - using Log-EQF, 3-4 hours a day, usually with the sweep on and set to 15 kHz. EQF did have some timeout proble
Chuckle - even back in prehistoric times we knew the only way to broadband a dipole is to make it lossy. However the reduction in field strength, while greater than a typical trap or loading inductor
Well, I should have said the only way to broadband a single thin wire dipole is to make it lossy. A "fat" dipole, whether it's a cage, "double pennant," folded, the original "fan," or some other vari
Well, TANSTAFFL. There Ain't No Such Thing As A Free Lunch! Never has been, never will be. And yes, there were several saloonkeepers in the ancestry. But even in those days the drinkers who feasted o
NOOOO, Bob, not quite. A low dipole is essentially an omnidirectional antenna, typically with extremely good efficency. A large loop is directional, "beaming" more of its applied energy in two direct
Mark, the 705 will work with voltage supplied through the mike plug on the front of your Ten-Tec radio. It's only needed if you use a 705 on a non - Ten Tec radio. So first take the battery out. Make
Rick, your observations generally agree with mine on NVIS antennas of any sort; whether dipole, inverted V, or loop, over very reflective ground. The experiment I observed used roughly 100,000 square
Well, Paul, I'm not knocking the horizontal loop. For what it's good for, vertical radiation on the fundamental and high angle radiation with both pronounced lobes and equally pronounced nulls on the
Stuart, we have also used low horizontal loops for FD - and I think we could have gotten an award for WAA. Worked All Alabama - or Arkansas - or Louisana, Georgia, west Tennesse, and the Missouri boo
While Bob's comments are well taken, we get to FD operations because they were mentioned early in this thread. And with all due respect to those who have operated the W5NA/K5PN station, we have never