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Re: [TenTec] Model 318 Amplifier Key Interface

To: ken.d.brown@hawaiiantel.net, Discussion of Ten-Tec Equipment <tentec@contesting.com>
Subject: Re: [TenTec] Model 318 Amplifier Key Interface
From: Richards <jruing@ameritech.net>
Reply-to: Discussion of Ten-Tec Equipment <tentec@contesting.com>
Date: Thu, 02 Feb 2012 21:35:18 -0500
List-post: <mailto:tentec@contesting.com>
Oh Yeah....
Like I am equipped or sufficiently informed to pull all that off !

I am still kinda new too some of this ham stuff. Not the sharpest, but not the dullest knife in the drawer, I don't understand it all ... yet...

so:

--  Scene 1 --

My Omni VII works seamlessly with my Centurion amp - using the TX EN and TX OUT loop, and the QSK setting on the amp front panel. No problem... I trust TenTec to have set this up and it works perfectly. I presume the 318 is not intended to solve any problem under t his scenario, because there is no problem under this scenario.

-- Scene 2 --

I set my TS-590s to have a 10 ms delay. It keys the Centurion and I use the Key IN jack on the back of the amp, and use the PTT/VOX setting on the amp front panel switch. This appears to work fine. I key the mic... the amp comes on ... and I talk. No apparent problems.

        Questions:

        A)   So...  what would the 318 do for me under Scene 2 ?
                Is it "needed"  or just that it would work with the rig?

        B)   Would the answer be different if I was operating CW versus SSB?

        C)   Would the answer be different if I was operating CW in QSK
                mode versus non-QSK mode?

        D)   The TS-590s has two delays,   10ms and 25 ms.
                The Model 318 has a 100ms or longer delay.
                Do I want or need this longer delay?

        E)   Are these delays the same?   Is one a wait-to-transmit delay,
                and the other a wait-to-receive delay?

I am so sorry to have to ask such basic questions, but the user manuals do not explain this sort of thing very well. No one likes to appear ignorant, but I concede this is beyond my at this point (He said, as he reached for his Teflon, flame-retardant suit.) ;-)

Thanks in advance.

Sheesh... and I had to pick a hobby where you learn stuff all the time ! ;-)

------------------------------ "Anonymous" / K8JHR ---------------------------





On 2/2/2012 12:29 AM, Ken Brown wrote:

The only way to know for sure is to measure it yourself.

Figuring out the capability of the amplifier may require getting inside
of it while parts of the amplifier are disabled.

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