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[TenTec] any real live reports yet?

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Subject: [TenTec] any real live reports yet?
From: ve3ios@servers.ca (Jeff Peacock)
Date: Tue, 28 May 2002 14:57:40 -0400
Holy smokes Mike take a pill!!!!!!!!! relax, did I say something you
disagree with about your beloved Heil? Use what works for you and i will do
the same.
jeff
ve3ios
----- Original Message -----
From: "Mike Hyder -N4NT-" <N4NT@chartertn.net>
To: <tentec@contesting.com>
Sent: Tuesday, May 28, 2002 12:37 PM
Subject: Re: [TenTec] any real live reports yet?


> Does your Heil microphone have the 'Roger-Beep' feature?  I feel like I'm
> tuned in to channel 19.
>
> Microphones come in all sorts of types with all sorts of outputs -- some
> balanced, some not; some high impedance, some low impedance; some in the
> middle; some with higher output than others.
>
> To expect any manufacturer to accomodate all of these without sacrificing
> audio quality somewhere is not realistic.  I suggest that if your
microphone
> does not work properly with your rig you do one of five things: 1) Get a
> different microphone, 2) ensure that you provide proper impedance matching
> between the microphone and the rig, 3) use a microphone preamplifier if
'2)'
> is not sufficient, 4) modify the rig or replace it to suit yourself, or 5)
> use CW.
>
> I read on here what amounts to almost constant griping at Ten-Tec because
a
> Heil microphone does not work properly with the rig.  Does anyone ever
> complain at Heil that Heil doesn't provide different microphone elements
> with different characteristics to suit different rigs or at least
different
> types of application, i.e. higher or lower impedance, and higher output
> voltage?  Perhaps you could start a reflector on Heil microphones and
gripe
> about them to your heart's content.
>
> Mike N4NT
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Jeff Peacock" <ve3ios@servers.ca>
> To: <martins160@excite.com>; <tentec@contesting.com>
> Sent: Monday, May 27, 2002 9:34 PM
> Subject: Re: [TenTec] any real live reports yet?
>
>
> > Well I hope that Ten tec does not have there mic input setup like the
> > Jupiter and expect every contester to throw there heil headsets in the
> > garbage and buy ten tec mikes.
> > The orion should be plug and play with any mike/headset without having
to
> go
> > inside and make adjustments.
> > Jeff
> > ve3ios
> > ----- Original Message -----
> > From: <martins160@excite.com>
> > To: <tentec@contesting.com>
> > Sent: Thursday, May 23, 2002 7:33 PM
> > Subject: [TenTec] any real live reports yet?
> >
> >
> > >
> > > I wonder if anyone has heard an orion on air yet? anyone doing beta
> > testing? the only viewing has been at two hamfests and neither had the
rig
> > powered up.
> > > Icom has a new big rig to debut in 2003 I do not read all the
bickering
> > about that on their websites.
> > > Ok, I have some concerns and issues as to what I'd like in that
> expensive
> > new rig but I never was asked by any survey. So for now I wait to see if
> the
> > gang at ten tec has heard your voices and if they will do anything other
> > than what they have already told us.
> > > I vote for the color screen not as a bell and whistle but for function
> to
> > help identify stuff on it. it should be easy to take a color screen and
> > adjust it to monochrome but you can't do that the other way.
> > > a built in antenna tuner well, that should be a no brainer..all new
> techy
> > wechy big rigs have them so why not?
> > > anyone happen to notice the cooling fan is an option? what's that
about?
> > >
> > > marty   ka7gkn@arrl.net
>
>
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