- 21. [TenTec] Re: Keyer selection (score: 1)
- Author: patents@dx0man.prestel.co.uk (John - G3JAG)
- Date: Sun, 02 Jan 2000 16:19:35 -0000 (GMT)
- You can cope with most things if you have a single lever, or if you can psych yourself up to treat it as a single lever. But doing it in a DX pile-up at 25 wpm is another matter. In fact if you have
- /archives//html/TenTec/2000-01/msg00044.html (10,680 bytes)
- 22. [TenTec] RF & Pegasus (score: 1)
- Author: patents@dx0man.prestel.co.uk (John - G3JAG)
- Date: Wed, 08 Dec 1999 21:10:10 -0000 (GMT)
- What battery ? Mine is powered from the Omni-V. KC4EE may need to look at his grounding system, and/or antenna/ATU cabling. The 705 can be prone to RFI - I had all sorts of problems including RF burn
- /archives//html/TenTec/1999-12/msg00134.html (10,843 bytes)
- 23. [TenTec] Fw: Anyone tried upgrading OMNI V Firmware? N4PY (score: 1)
- Author: patents@dx0man.prestel.co.uk (John - G3JAG)
- Date: Sun, 12 Dec 1999 17:18:50 -0000 (GMT)
- Fundamental problem, Carl. There is no chip on the Motorola site with more than 304 bytes of RAM ..... The nearest device is certainly the MC68HC705C8ACS. I searched for MC68 and C8CS, and various ot
- /archives//html/TenTec/1999-12/msg00216.html (9,959 bytes)
- 24. [TenTec] Pegasus and a ray-gun (score: 1)
- Author: patents@dx0man.prestel.co.uk (John - G3JAG)
- Date: Sat, 18 Dec 1999 15:38:21 -0000 (GMT)
- Seems I'm not the only one to have PC noise problems. Sounds like you do not have a screened cable. Or if you do, the noise is apparently on the screening braid. Have you tried disconnecting the scre
- /archives//html/TenTec/1999-12/msg00321.html (10,615 bytes)
- 25. [TenTec] Best Straight Key (score: 1)
- Author: patents@dx0man.prestel.co.uk (John - G3JAG)
- Date: Sun, 19 Dec 1999 22:12:07 -0000 (GMT)
- After years of being obliged to pound a hand key in very strange positions, (including at shoulder height) I agree thats its one fairly inexpensive way to start sending code. But unless you can quick
- /archives//html/TenTec/1999-12/msg00366.html (13,775 bytes)
- 26. [TenTec] Best Straight Key (score: 1)
- Author: patents@dx0man.prestel.co.uk (John - G3JAG)
- Date: Tue, 21 Dec 1999 00:22:13 -0000 (GMT)
- No two hams will agree on either morse keys or antennas !! Or on how best to set them up. Kathleen and Ari; it does not matter what key you use. As long as you are comfortable with it and as long as
- /archives//html/TenTec/1999-12/msg00406.html (16,596 bytes)
- 27. [TenTec] FS: Corsair I, microphone and manual (score: 1)
- Author: patents@dx0man.prestel.co.uk (John - G3JAG)
- Date: Wed, 22 Dec 1999 10:30:28 -0000 (GMT)
- One cause of sticking meters (perhaps mainly of the modern almost-all plastic kind) seems to be light-weight manufacturing debris inside the meter. My 253 auto-atu developed a sticking fault after I
- /archives//html/TenTec/1999-12/msg00446.html (14,012 bytes)
- 28. [TenTec] Hercules with low drive (score: 1)
- Author: patents@dx0man.prestel.co.uk (John - G3JAG)
- Date: Sun, 26 Dec 1999 23:59:48 -0000 (GMT)
- I think the only way to get enough drive for the Herc II from a K2 will be to buy the K2 add-on final, when it becomes available. The Herc II is designed around a transceiver that is capable of at le
- /archives//html/TenTec/1999-12/msg00530.html (10,289 bytes)
- 29. [TenTec] Hercules II Power Source (score: 1)
- Author: patents@dx0man.prestel.co.uk (John - G3JAG)
- Date: Sat, 01 Jan 2000 02:09:24 -0000 (GMT)
- The power gain is not necessarily exactly the same for different Herc IIs. The final transistors are matched by TT, but two sets may well not have the same gain. TT can and do adjust the gain, but on
- /archives//html/TenTec/1999-12/msg00700.html (12,414 bytes)
- 30. [TenTec] Omni-V sick from pc (score: 1)
- Author: patents@dx0man.prestel.co.uk (John - G3JAG)
- Date: Thu, 04 Nov 1999 20:43:12 -0000 (GMT)
- You have my sympathy Scott. Sounds like the uncontrollable Omni-V interface syndrome is biting you, but is it ??? Simple fix -- do NOT connect an Omni-V to a PC. If you must do this, then make sure t
- /archives//html/TenTec/1999-11/msg00095.html (12,137 bytes)
- 31. [TenTec] Omni-V sick from pc (score: 1)
- Author: patents@dx0man.prestel.co.uk (John - G3JAG)
- Date: Fri, 05 Nov 1999 23:52:45 -0000 (GMT)
- OK Scott. Yes the three wire cable has to be wired the way T*T recommend, but there is no other connection at all - there is no provision for any of the normal handshaking lines to be connected betwe
- /archives//html/TenTec/1999-11/msg00119.html (10,529 bytes)
- 32. [TenTec] Pegasus power supply . . (score: 1)
- Author: patents@dx0man.prestel.co.uk (John - G3JAG)
- Date: Mon, 08 Nov 1999 15:56:18 -0000 (GMT)
- I tried a cheapo 25A PSU (switch mode) and it buzzed loudly (I mean VERY loudly) in time with my CW and SSB. It was audible all over our home, so I took it back. I got an even cheaper one and it work
- /archives//html/TenTec/1999-11/msg00167.html (10,244 bytes)
- 33. [TenTec] PC for Pegasus (score: 1)
- Author: patents@dx0man.prestel.co.uk (John - G3JAG)
- Date: Fri, 12 Nov 1999 01:37:15 -0000 (GMT)
- I have an old DX2-66 486 with 64 meg of RAM; it runs Windows 98 very nicely, thank you. It has 4 16550 serial ports and a PS2 mouse; it does not seem to be significantly slower than the P-100 with 32
- /archives//html/TenTec/1999-11/msg00225.html (8,904 bytes)
- 34. [TenTec] PC for Pegasus (score: 1)
- Author: patents@dx0man.prestel.co.uk (John - G3JAG)
- Date: Fri, 12 Nov 1999 23:26:28 -0000 (GMT)
- Yes, I use only 16550's now. They work fine up to 115kbd, which ought to be fast enough for a Pegasus, or even a K2. Thats still a heap slower than the DX2-66 CPU, so its down to the memory overhead
- /archives//html/TenTec/1999-11/msg00248.html (11,750 bytes)
- 35. [TenTec] Terminal Program (score: 1)
- Author: patents@dx0man.prestel.co.uk (John - G3JAG)
- Date: Sat, 13 Nov 1999 10:28:30 -0000 (GMT)
- Ka-GOLD from Interflex works extremely well; there is a free demo version at www.interflex.com. Unfortunately, like most good programmes, Ka-GOLD is not exactly inexpensive, but it will certainly han
- /archives//html/TenTec/1999-11/msg00261.html (11,390 bytes)
- 36. [TenTec] Pegasus and a PC question (score: 1)
- Author: patents@dx0man.prestel.co.uk (John - G3JAG)
- Date: Sat, 20 Nov 1999 11:06:22 -0000 (GMT)
- Forget all the crap about being able to run Windows on a 486 with 8 or 16 meg of RAM .... the problem is not the serial port speed; its the tremendous memory overhead needed for Windows (any version)
- /archives//html/TenTec/1999-11/msg00384.html (11,868 bytes)
- 37. [TenTec] #253 Auto-Tuner (score: 1)
- Author: patents@dx0man.prestel.co.uk (John - G3JAG)
- Date: Sun, 21 Nov 1999 23:42:37 -0000 (GMT)
- 1. They say so. Its electrically very much the same as the 238. I have never arced mine, but I only run 500w into it. You tune it at low power (30-50 watts) so the relays should never have to switch
- /archives//html/TenTec/1999-11/msg00407.html (12,982 bytes)
- 38. [TenTec] ssb (score: 1)
- Author: patents@dx0man.prestel.co.uk (John - G3JAG)
- Date: Wed, 24 Nov 1999 06:49:54 -0000 (GMT)
- I have an Omni-V; it sounds the same if I run the RF gain much above 3 pm. I usually keep the audio gain around 9 am. But even with the attenuator switched in, the racket during a contest obliges me
- /archives//html/TenTec/1999-11/msg00457.html (9,004 bytes)
- 39. [TenTec] Looking for some sound advice... (score: 1)
- Author: patents@dx0man.prestel.co.uk (John - G3JAG)
- Date: Sat, 02 Oct 1999 10:33:09 +0100 (BST)
- I believe I have a program - somewhere. It came off a shareware floppy I picked up at a computerfest. It gives an on-screen display like the Omni-V front panel. I tried it and it works, but it was no
- /archives//html/TenTec/1999-10/msg00038.html (8,942 bytes)
- 40. [TenTec] THE paddle for keeps... (score: 1)
- Author: patents@dx0man.prestel.co.uk (John - G3JAG)
- Date: Sat, 02 Oct 1999 23:24:02 +0100 (BST)
- Do I detect a hint of a problem here ?? I'm very happy with my March paddle, but when I first set it up I had an "auto-dit" problem, even though the spacing was not that close. I wrongly assumed that
- /archives//html/TenTec/1999-10/msg00047.html (10,756 bytes)
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