- American radio relay league test of the ten tec pegasus cracker#
- American radio relay league test of the ten tec pegasus manual#
The FR-101 This is supposed to be the best receiver in the true Fox Tango line up. Don't me started on the gang switches in this thing. Don't even try to use American 6JS6C's with out modifications to the biasing circuit. The FL-101: was a powerful transmitter but it is one of the host of transmitters of the time that used those crappy sweep tubes for Pa's, It was difficult to neutralize the PA's because of this there where parasitics which caused all kinds of problems with my Heathkit SB-200 on tune up. Did I mention the drifty VFO's well once you synced them they didn't stay that way very long and one the the 5 landers would tell me I was off again so I would move off frequency and retune. This elmer rather then chewing on me for being off frequency showed me the Drake Canary method of synchronizing twin setups. Using the instructions in the "manual" I never could get the two radios to sync properly, Thank the moon and stars there was a Elmer on what I call the Green Pig round table, mostly 5 landers, on or about 3.940, who call Heathkit Amp's Green Pigs, "They are green and they keep on squealing".
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American radio relay league test of the ten tec pegasus manual#
A manual that only somebody who is blind can love. drifty VFO's, two of them, and receiver with the dynamic range of a 10 day old road kill. The designers at Yaesu must have thought "it is better to look good then to work good". The Yaesu Twins: What an impressive looking set of radios. Good thing I only paid 10 dollars for this Dog's lawn God offering. I could only do about 6 words a minute if I went any faster the resulting voltage drop would cause the 600 to move right out of the receiving OP's bandpass. As you key it the voltage starts to drop causing the VFO to drift up in frequency. The built in power supply is not regulated very well.
American radio relay league test of the ten tec pegasus cracker#
The engineering on this rig must have been done by electronics engineers who got their degrees out of a Cracker Jack box. Hmmm what to would have to be the Lysco 600 transmitter, and the Yaesu "twins" FR-101 and FL-101.įirst the Lysco 600: This is a CW transmitter from the 1950's using a single 807 for the PA. They can FORGET about me purchasing anything with a Kenwood label on it from now on. If this is an example of their customer service, Kenwood has lost me as a customer for life. Kenwood openly admits there IS a problem with the TM-V7A display, but refuses to make good on a known factory defect.
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In other words, this is just how they make you go away. Long story short, I've sent two e-mails and haven't heard a thing back in over a month. I called Kenwood up to get an explanation and one of the guys there told me to send him an e-mail about my situation and he said he'd look into it. So if you're like me and the radio just broke about two months ago, too bad, so sad! Here's a diagram and a couple of links to where you can buy the part that costs more than half the value of the radio! Their reasoning? They did the complementary repair for about 3 years and since this is a discontinued product (hmm.I wonder why?) they made the decision to stop fixing them. However, unlike many others, Kenwood REFUSES to fix this piece of junk, despite me being the original owner! Like so many others, I have had the display go bad with vertical lines at power on, then slowly fades out completely in 10 minutes or so, rendering the radio completely useless. RE: What Was Your Worst Piece of Ham Gear? Also let us know if you think you had a rare lemon, or if you think the shortcomings were typical of the breed.Įntries for the Equipment Hall of Shame are now open! Your candidate can be any item- radio, power supply, mic, tuner, antenna, etc. Give us the specific areas where you think it missed the mark, for example: poor receive performance under crowded band conditions, transmit distortion, flaky controls, inaccurate readings or display, frequent trips to the shop, drift, weak construction, lousy documentation, poor factory support, etc. Be sure to compare it to its peers of the time it wouldn't be fair to say that your old Yaesu 77 (or whatever) was junk when compared to the new K2 (or whatever) you now have. But I'm sure that many of us have owned a real "stinker." Here's your chance to tell everyone about yours.
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