The original Paragon has the Motorola Clock Chip with a Daylight Savings Time
twice a year change. I believe the changes should be on the 1st Sunday in
April and the last Sunday in October, but I don't remember if there's any way
to set the year so that you can be prepared for the change. I do remember
playing with my Paragon by resetting the clock calendar and observing the
"spring ahead" and "fall back" at 0100 and 0200. It matters not that you are
setting the clock to UTC, when the time comes for it to change one hour for
Daylight Savings Time, it will.
APPLIES ONLY TO ORIGINAL PARAGONS WITH ORIGINAL MOTOROLA CLOCK CHIP SET.
Best regards,
CSM(r) Gary Huber - AB9M
9679 Heron Bay Rd
Bloomington, IL 61705
(309-662-0604)
www.csm-gh.com
glhuber@msn.com
gary.huber@us.army.mil
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From: "Bwana Bob" <wb2vuf@gti.net>
Sent: Wednesday, March 11, 2009 8:30 PM
To: "N4PY" <n4py@arrl.net>; "Discussion of Ten-Tec Equipment"
<tentec@contesting.com>
Subject: Re: [TenTec] Paragon II
> I have the original Paragon and the clock seems to change by an hour at
> random times. I run it on GMT (UTC) and I have to reset it fairly often.
>
> Bob WB2VUF
>
> N4PY wrote:
>> I wrote the firmware for the Paragon II. The clock chip is programmable
>> with a daylight savings time option bit. This setting is always turned off
>> in the Paragon II. So the Paragon II will never change its clock for DST.
>>
>> Carl Moreschi N4PY
>> 121 Little Bell Drive
>> Bell Mountain
>> Hays, NC 28635
>> ----- Original Message -----
>> From: "CSM(r) Gary Huber" <glhuber@msn.com>
>> To: "Discussion of Ten-Tec Equipment" <tentec@contesting.com>
>> Sent: Monday, March 02, 2009 8:47 PM
>> Subject: Re: [TenTec] Paragon II
>>
>>
>>> Clock "problem" may be the daylight saving time spring advance and and
>>> fall back times that are "hard coded" to execute based upon advancing the
>>> time one hour at 0100 the last Sunday in April and to fall back one hour
>>> at 0200 the last Sunday in October. This was verified (by me) during
>>> research for the Millennium rollover. The clock chip is a Motorola IC with
>>> no options to deactivate the advance and set back.
>>>
>>> I'm a previous owner of a Paragon II. Great radio.... just run a separate
>>> clock for logging!
>>>
>>> Best regards,
>>>
>>> CSM(r) Gary Huber - AB9M
>>> 9679 Heron Bay Rd
>>> Bloomington, IL 61705
>>> (309-662-0604)
>>> www.csm-gh.com
>>> glhuber@msn.com
>>> gary.huber@us.army.mil
>>>
>>>
>>> --------------------------------------------------
>>> From: "peter" <w8us@comcast.net>
>>> Sent: Monday, March 02, 2009 6:06 PM
>>> To: <tentec@contesting.com>
>>> Subject: [TenTec] Paragon II
>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Tentec Paragon II station for sale. Model 586. This is a highly
>>>> desirable Paragon II model and is considered an equivalent to higher
>>>> priced transceivers today. It has all the available filters installed
>>>> and is supplied with the matching Tentec 961 power supply/speaker and
>>>> Tentec desk mike. Also, the original boxes and manual are available.
>>>> The station was operated in a non-smoking environment. The receiver is
>>>> general coverage, 300 Khz to 30 Mhz. Modification to allow the
>>>> transmitter to operate between 1.8 and 30 Mhz has been made, thus it
>>>> covers the new 60 meter band.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Equipment is in excellent cosmetic and mechanical condition and has no
>>>> scratches. The station clock is erratic at times, but this does not
>>>> affect the operation of the transceiver.
>>>>
>>>> Will consider selling Paragon II by itself.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> If you are a C.W. operator, this is your dream set-up. Price $900.00
>>>> shipped and insured to lower 48 only. Contact Peter, W8US, at
>>>> W8us@comcast.net.
>>>>
>>>> Peter
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