Hey folks, I'm new around here and I'm new to ten tec equipment. The
names David (VE6NHZ) and I'm a newer ham only having been licenced about 18
months now. I do have my advanced ticket and because of that an older Ham gave
me as a gift a Ten Tec Triton IV with matching power supply (252m). They've
both been hanger queens for many years and as a result they're in great
cosmetic shape but pretty poor shape electrically. I've got the power supply
up and working with a Yaesu 2800m, and it works fine for the most part but the
voltage is a little high (~14.5) and I'm getting reports of hum, So I'm
thinking that the caps have dried out....I'm gonna poke around in their in a
few days but for now that's my thoughts. Any advice would be appreciated.
And the Triton IV is the other project, I opened it up and poked around and it
/looked/ fine, but looks aren't everything. I don't have a mike for it (I'll
have to find one compatible and make the appropriate adapters) but I fully
intend to work CW with it as I hear it's a phenominal cw tranceiver. It needs
the PTO rebuild and the string indicator seems to have slipped (I'm not sure if
thats part of the pto rebuild or not) Questions: -How
difficult is it to overhaul this tranceiver? On the surface it seems relitivly
straightforward (assuming murphey doesn't get his grubby little paws in there)
but am I underestimating this? -I was told by the guy at ten tec
that the service and operators manuals were one and the same, he seemed kindve
grumpy so I didn't ask but what does he mean by that? Is the required service
information (calibration, allignment, test point levels etc.) all in the
operators manual, or is it just an operators manual with schematics?Thanks for
the information folks and I'll be around the list, I've found so much good
information here in the past, thank you, I only hope that I can help somehow
:)-David(VE6NHZ)
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