My Titan 3 blew up, sitting in stand-by on the desk. Just got it
back from Ten Tec on Thursday.
When testing it, could only get 1200w max into the dummy load.
Taking it apart and inspecting it, I found the same old problem of
poor assembly. A screw from the tube section was protruding to the
below compartment, partially shorting out the RF input line on a PC
board. I went through this with Ten Tec back in November and found
the problem after they told me "you must have a bad interface coax
cable". Still an on-going problem with practically NO QC at Ten Tec.
Anyway after replacing the screw, I still expected to have problems
with the amp, but it just sat there, purring at 1500w.
Was going to add an HF (20&15m) antenna, but the way this silly 80m
dipole is working...WHY?
Tom - W4BQF
----- Original Message -----
From: "Macie, Gordon" <GMacie@innotrac.com>
To: "'Jay Pryor'" <jpryor@uga.edu>; <SECC@contesting.com>
Sent: Monday, November 08, 2004 10:13 AM
Subject: RE: [SECC] K4OGG, CWSS
> I ran my amp also. Strange experience people actually hearing me.
I had very
> few fills compared to what I'm use to.
>
> Gordon
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Jay Pryor [mailto:jpryor@uga.edu]
> Sent: Monday, November 08, 2004 10:05 AM
> To: SECC@contesting.com
> Subject: [SECC] K4OGG, CWSS
>
>
> This was my first part-time CWSS in a long time. And the first
time I have
> ever entered any contest in the high power category. But there's
no
> question that my score is higher than it would have been
> otherwise. Anyway, it took me a while to figure out how to hook
up and
> load up the amp. I really don't use it much. After I got it up
and
> running though I enjoyed a laid-back SS. It was good to run into
many SECC
> folks, and other contesters who are "regulars."
>
> Here's what it looked like:
>
> BAND Raw QSOs Valid QSOs Points Mults
> __________________________________________________
>
> 80CW 64 64 128 30
> 40CW 48 48 96 18
> 20CW 103 103 206 14
> 15CW 95 95 190 9
> 10CW 12 12 24 1
> __________________________________________________
>
> Totals 322 322 644 72
>
>
> Final Score = 46368 points.
>
> 73,
>
> Jay/K4OGG
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