Lee, that is very useful and interesting data. How about the ARGO V? I
was disappointed to see that it requires such a large power supply - I
assume for the 20 Watt output, but it seems to want "juice."
Kris KM2KM
Merschrod
San Francisco, CA
www.merschrod.net
----- Original Message -----
From: <wa3fiy@radioadv.com>
To: "John" <jh.graves@verizon.net>; "Discussion of Ten-Tec Equipment"
<tentec@contesting.com>
Sent: Thursday, September 08, 2011 8:05 AM
Subject: Re: [TenTec] Argosy (I)
> John and group,
>
> A few years ago I tested about a dozen rigs for use on battery, both CW
> and SSB where both
> modes were available. CW and SSB were close to the same power consumption
> with CW
> being slightly better. Note: all rigs were full QSK on CW. The tests
> were run at 40 meters
> and 50% transmit duty cycle. (That's very heavy transmit use! Maybe net
> control type use.)
>
> The following results were calculated for 5 Watts CW using a 7.5 A/H batt
> discharged 90%.
>
> OHR 100A 0.75A 31 hrs
>
> Argosy 1.30A 12 hrs.
>
> Argosy II 2.70A 7.8 hrs
> (disp off)
>
> Argosy II 2.90A 6.4 hrs
> (disp on)
>
> Omni IV 5.9A 2.9 hrs
>
> Just tossed the O VI in for fun. :-)
>
> In each case the test sample was one unit.
>
> 73,
>
> -Lee-
>
> WA3FIY
>
>
> On 7 Sep 2011 at 10:40, John wrote:
>
>> I have an Argosy and think it would fun to use it as a portable rig.
>> Has anybody built up a portable supply for it? The listed specs say
>> it draws .5 A on RX and 9 A. Max. Is it really 2 A. total at low
>> power ( 5 W)? as an extrapolation ? The FT-817 runs about 2A on
>> transmit aso I would think I would be in that range. At least one
>> person is using a 5000 mah battery as a supply for the 817. Just
>> thinking out load.
>>
>> John / WA1JG
>
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