OMG, those radios were SO awful.
I bought one at a hamfest when I was 18 - and even with test equipment and
youthful exuberance, along with manuals, I never even got close to getting
that thing working.
Those were dreadful (yet collectible) radios.
On Mon, 3 Feb 2003, bill legge wrote:
> I believe it is a PM2
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: <wb5jnc@juno.com>
> To: <tentec@contesting.com>
> Sent: Monday, February 03, 2003 8:18 PM
> Subject: [TenTec] Swap Power-Mite PM? for Argonaut or Omni B
>
>
> > Greetings,
> >
> > I have come to realize that I'm not a collector -- or maybe I should say
> that I prefer my "collectables" to be something which can be used regularly.
> Thus, I would like to explore trading my Power-Mite PM-? (not sure which
> one -- more on this later) for an Argonaut 509 or an Omni "B" series (analog
> or digital).
> >
> > The "more on this later": there is what I think is the remnant of a model
> number stamp on the back panel but it is almost unreadable. Therefore, I
> will try as best I can to describe what I have. The PM has a cream color
> front panel with black lettering, almost exactly like the PM-2 in Paul
> Valko's "museum", except that the dial has 80/40/15 (not 20) meters. The
> main board has a small area (~ 1.5" X 3") at the left rear (near key/12V/RF
> connectors) which is etched and drilled but unpopulated. There is a small
> daughterboard mounted above the right rear of the main board: it is ~ 2" X
> 4" and has a slug tuned inductor, two transistors (BC407B?) two trimpots,
> and misc. caps and resistors.
> >
> > I won't tell you that this PM is "near mint" "9.5 on a scale of 10" --
> because it isn't. It has been modified with the typical 1/4" phone jack on
> the rear panel and the SO-239 instead of phono jack. There are also some
> "normal wear and tear" scratches and dings on the cabinet, but overall it is
> pretty clean and doesn't have excessive wear. The RX works (other than the
> fact that the dial calibration is questionable and being a DC RX with no
> filters you hear about 1/2 of the band at once HI HI!!!) but I haven't ever
> fired up the TX so don't know about it.
> >
> > If this isn't enough info let me know and I'll try to fill in any gaps.
> >
> > TNX/73, Al
> >
> >
> >
> >
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