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Re: [TenTec] ORION BCI

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Subject: Re: [TenTec] ORION BCI
From: "Martin, AA6E" <martin.ewing@gmail.com>
Reply-to: "Martin, AA6E" <martin.ewing@gmail.com>,Discussion of Ten-Tec Equipment <tentec@contesting.com>
Date: Fri, 27 May 2005 16:52:18 -0400
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Steve,

I don't doubt your reports.  Vacuum tubes are the best for strong
signals! Can you measure the actual BC voltage at the antenna
terminals?

73 Martin AA6E

On 5/27/05, n4lq <n4lq@iglou.com> wrote:
> Ok but I doubt all of this. The Orion I had here was totally devistated
> by BCI from WHAS, 50kw about 10 miles away when using my loop. The loop
> gives any rig a hard way to go unless there's a tuner inline. A few rigs
> are able to withstand this such as my TS-480, TS-930, IC-756PROII and
> OMNI VI but the older TT rigs were totally rendered useless unless I had
> a tuner or my ICE filter in-line. Oh yes, the Jupiter and Pegasus were
> also wiped out. The Orion was blasted on 160 and 80m. My HQ-150 and SX-
> 122 don't notice a thing! '
> Steve
> 
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