- 121. Re: [TenTec] Zepp? (score: 1)
- Author: Jim Allen <jim.allen@longhornband.net>
- Date: Wed, 10 Sep 2014 09:52:16 -0500
- That's what I have now, except instead of a balun, I match with an AH-4 remote autotuner which handles it with ease, as long as you don't want to run more than ~120 watts, which I don't. It works fai
- /archives//html/TenTec/2014-09/msg00117.html (10,985 bytes)
- 122. Re: [TenTec] SWR is a DUMB Indicator of Antenna Performance (score: 1)
- Author: Jim Allen <jim.allen@longhornband.net>
- Date: Mon, 15 Sep 2014 10:40:06 -0500
- *It seems that here we fall largely to the victim of verbal semantics.* I thought you were going to rant about the marketing of antennas in advertising. I have long considered the ads and accompanyin
- /archives//html/TenTec/2014-09/msg00198.html (20,119 bytes)
- 123. Re: [TenTec] din connector, news from Hall Mountain KY (score: 1)
- Author: Jim Allen <jim.allen@longhornband.net>
- Date: Sat, 20 Sep 2014 11:30:18 -0500
- What was the cause of death? 73 de W6OGC/AE Jim Allen _______________________________________________ TenTec mailing list TenTec@contesting.com http://lists.contesting.com/mailman/listinfo/tentec
- /archives//html/TenTec/2014-09/msg00274.html (7,670 bytes)
- 124. Re: [TenTec] Oooo-PS (score: 1)
- Author: Jim Allen <jim.allen@longhornband.net>
- Date: Sat, 20 Sep 2014 12:19:33 -0500
- I've sent my Omni VI and VI+ back and forth to Sevierville on UPS and nary a problem. The VI+ is due to be delivered here on Monday. Tentec uses a new box with new packing every time, won't reuse the
- /archives//html/TenTec/2014-09/msg00276.html (9,635 bytes)
- 125. Re: [TenTec] Shipping methods (score: 1)
- Author: Jim Allen <jim.allen@longhornband.net>
- Date: Mon, 22 Sep 2014 21:32:18 -0500
- I have never had a problem with UPS, or Fedex for that matter. We used Fedex a great deal in our business in California. Today my Omni VI+ arrived from a factory repair, replacing all the relays on t
- /archives//html/TenTec/2014-09/msg00344.html (11,788 bytes)
- 126. Re: [TenTec] din connector, etc. (score: 1)
- Author: Jim Allen <jim.allen@longhornband.net>
- Date: Wed, 24 Sep 2014 17:42:55 -0500
- I have appreciated your help Bob. Frankly, I don't read the manual the same way you do, and can't. These radios are sufficiently complicated that that is not really a practical alternative for many o
- /archives//html/TenTec/2014-09/msg00389.html (25,309 bytes)
- 127. Re: [TenTec] WRTC-18 (score: 1)
- Author: Jim Allen <jim.allen@longhornband.net>
- Date: Sat, 11 Oct 2014 08:48:02 -0500
- It had better. I'm in the process of putting up one of those right now with Spider poles so I expect great things! 73 de W6OGC Jim Allen _______________________________________________ TenTec mailing
- /archives//html/TenTec/2014-10/msg00129.html (9,504 bytes)
- 128. Re: [TenTec] TEN TEC SCOUT Mosules (score: 1)
- Author: Jim Allen <jim.allen@longhornband.net>
- Date: Sun, 12 Oct 2014 09:43:26 -0500
- Watch it, now! Quite a few on this list are over 70 years old and some are almost there. I forget who, but I know they're out there. What did he forget? 73 de W6OGC Jim Allen ________________________
- /archives//html/TenTec/2014-10/msg00143.html (13,900 bytes)
- 129. Re: [TenTec] ROCKER POWER SWITCH FOR PARAGON II AND 961 PS (score: 1)
- Author: Jim Allen <jim.allen@longhornband.net>
- Date: Sun, 12 Oct 2014 13:27:26 -0500
- I replaced the one in my PS earlier this year. I just got the radio and PS a few months before so have no idea what kind of usage it had. Tentec sells then for $5 each. 73 de W6OGC Jim Allen ________
- /archives//html/TenTec/2014-10/msg00148.html (11,150 bytes)
- 130. Re: [TenTec] OMNI VI illness (score: 1)
- Author: Jim Allen <jim.allen@longhornband.net>
- Date: Sat, 25 Oct 2014 19:04:27 -0500
- When I had this malady on 160 on my VI+, the factory replaced all the relays on some board, about $350.00. They also in that redid something to bring the 30M output up to spec. 73 de W6OGC Jim Allen
- /archives//html/TenTec/2014-10/msg00242.html (7,927 bytes)
- 131. Re: [TenTec] New Radios in the Future (score: 1)
- Author: Jim Allen <jim.allen@longhornband.net>
- Date: Sun, 2 Nov 2014 15:49:13 -0600
- If all one did was contests, one style would be best. Working DX day to day would make some other set up preferable. You seldom use split in contesting, and seldom do without it these days working DX
- /archives//html/TenTec/2014-11/msg00047.html (12,106 bytes)
- 132. Re: [TenTec] OMNI VI must have a very quiet LO (score: 1)
- Author: Jim Allen <jim.allen@longhornband.net>
- Date: Mon, 3 Nov 2014 21:41:30 -0600
- How does one do this? 73 de W6OGC Jim Allen _______________________________________________ TenTec mailing list TenTec@contesting.com http://lists.contesting.com/mailman/listinfo/tentec
- /archives//html/TenTec/2014-11/msg00107.html (8,638 bytes)
- 133. Re: [TenTec] New Radios in the Future (score: 1)
- Author: Jim Allen <jim.allen@longhornband.net>
- Date: Tue, 4 Nov 2014 07:54:37 -0600
- I look at it just like I looked at running 10Ks, half and marathons and triathlons. I had no hope of ever winning one. As a long ago gym coach observed, I stay too long in one place. Nevertheless, on
- /archives//html/TenTec/2014-11/msg00118.html (15,235 bytes)
- 134. Re: [TenTec] Omni VI master oscillator (score: 1)
- Author: Jim Allen <jim.allen@longhornband.net>
- Date: Mon, 17 Nov 2014 09:22:07 -0600
- I understand they no longer have TCXOs, or at least that was the impression I got when my VI was in the shop earlier this year. No harm in asking though. 73 de W6OGC Jim Allen _______________________
- /archives//html/TenTec/2014-11/msg00272.html (9,222 bytes)
- 135. Re: [TenTec] 17 Meter Antenna (score: 1)
- Author: Jim Allen <jim.allen@longhornband.net>
- Date: Sun, 23 Nov 2014 15:15:13 -0600
- When you cost out Rich's design, it is not much more than other antenna options. By the time you get some No. 14 wire, coax, a mast, guying parts, etc you have likely spent as much. The vacuum variab
- /archives//html/TenTec/2014-11/msg00383.html (11,323 bytes)
- 136. Re: [TenTec] 17 Meter Antenna (score: 1)
- Author: Jim Allen <jim.allen@longhornband.net>
- Date: Sun, 23 Nov 2014 15:48:58 -0600
- Of course not! No one would chose this while free to put up any kind of antenna you wanted. These will appeal, though, to those who are limited in what they are allowed, by finances, or HOA Nazis, XY
- /archives//html/TenTec/2014-11/msg00385.html (13,685 bytes)
- 137. Re: [TenTec] OT: Progresso Soup (score: 1)
- Author: Jim Allen <jim.allen@longhornband.net>
- Date: Thu, 4 Dec 2014 18:00:38 -0600
- I put it in the same category as Wild Bill Hickok's .45s which never had to be reloaded, and never missed, and Disney's Davy Crockett, King of the Wild Frontier. It's TV..... nothing real about it, e
- /archives//html/TenTec/2014-12/msg00036.html (8,363 bytes)
- 138. Re: [TenTec] Antenna help (score: 1)
- Author: Jim Allen <jim.allen@longhornband.net>
- Date: Tue, 30 Dec 2014 11:04:11 -0600
- I'm in the process of putting up one of those right now. I'm using No. 18 insulated wire from Wireman, not because this is the best choice in all respects but because I don't have 4 tall trees ideall
- /archives//html/TenTec/2014-12/msg00353.html (12,209 bytes)
- 139. [TenTec] Omni VI Mystery - resolved (score: 1)
- Author: Jim Allen <jim.allen@longhornband.net>
- Date: Wed, 11 Feb 2015 12:25:51 -0600
- Many will recall the thread last July abut the weird behavior of the Omni VI Opt 3 I had. The radio was off frequency in CW transmit, so that when you zero beat and called another station, the signal
- /archives//html/TenTec/2015-02/msg00058.html (8,032 bytes)
- 140. [TenTec] Another Omni VI+ Mystery (score: 1)
- Author: Jim Allen <jim.allen@longhornband.net>
- Date: Fri, 27 Feb 2015 16:15:41 -0600
- This afternoon, while observing all the exciting action on 30M on the cluster, I discovered to my dismay that the Omni VI+ would not transmit on 30M, or receive signals. It is FB on the other bands.
- /archives//html/TenTec/2015-02/msg00150.html (7,737 bytes)
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