Let me chime in on this.A good friend on mine,AJ5Q(sk) ran a corsair duece
for many years on cw.Yes his pto finally became wobbly on cw.He was a smoker
aand a cw op(tune up and down lower 25 constantly).I rebuilt it since he
didn't want to send it in and be down.I had rebuilt several
cx-7's..But,after I did this we found that ten-tec would send a re-built
pto.So we kept a re-build on hand to swap if ever needed.BUT,he ran his for
10 years and many qso's before a rebuild.Remember,it is a
PTO.Not,digital...this is to be expected after some time with pto..73 all
john
----- Original Message -----
From: "Rob Atkinson, K5UJ" <k5uj@hotmail.com>
To: <tentec@contesting.com>
Sent: Friday, June 09, 2006 9:15 PM
Subject: Re: [TenTec] Corsair differences....
<<<What's the story on the PTO, however? Do the
Corsair's PTOs REALLY need repeated rebuilding? >>>
Hi Craig,
I bought a factory rehabbed C2 from Ten Tec a few years ago. The PTO was
okay on phone but on cw it exhibited the wobbly cw note that indicated it
needed rebuilding (at least that was what it seemed like to me). I sent
it
in to TT for a rebuild and it came back and still had the warbling cw
note.
It also was beginning to show age related problems that you would expect
in
any 20 year old rig. I gave up and basically gave it away to a young ham
who was getting started and needed a HF rig. that was my experience but
by
no means should it be considered typical since I think there are many
satisfied C2 owners out there, and ignoring the probs I had, it was a
swell
cw rig and had a nice sound on phone. It had a variable AF bandpass
filter
that was real nice. It also let you zero beat the other station on cw as
if you were operating separates instead of a transceiver. I have never
liked the typical transceiver method of matching the sidetone freq. to the
other stations beat frequency.
GL & 73
rob / k5uj
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