[Boatanchors] TCS Tx & Rx

[Geoff]

I agree but since I have several great CW rigs I didnt care to modify the 
ART-13 (actually an ATC which very few recognize).

Its also tricky to get great sounding AM and click free CW out of a final 
thats biased into deep Class C. That TCS I used aboard ship could be heard 
on ship frequencies so I had to observe silent "hours" which was just a call 
on the intercom to cool it for 10-20 minutes.

OTH the big old TBM at 500W out with TX and RX antennas in parallel about 
75' apart ran full QSK.with just a small frequency difference. Wish I had 
the room here for one and its MG set.

Carl
KM1H




----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Bry Carling" <bcarling at cfl.rr.com>
To: "Geoff" <geoffrey at jeremy.mv.com>; <boatanchors at mailman.qth.net>; 
<w8au at sssnet.com>
Sent: Saturday, March 24, 2012 4:39 PM
Subject: Re: [Boatanchors] TCS Tx & Rx


> My ART13 was wonderful on CW at any speed with simple grid block keying. 
> Great rig...
>
> -- 
> Sent from my android "relatively smart" phone. Please excuse my brevity.
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> _____________________________________________
> From: Geoff <geoffrey at jeremy.mv.com>
> Sent: Sat Mar 24 16:14:18 EDT 2012
> To: boatanchors at mailman.qth.net, w8au at sssnet.com
> Subject: Re: [Boatanchors] TCS Tx & Rx
>
>
> The ART-13 relay is louder and slower and I cant operate CW that slow. It 
> is
> a great AM TX however and at 100-120W out it can usually be heard on a 
> busy
> ham band unlike a flea power rig.
>
> Of course flea power is ofen used in conjunction with flea sized antennas
> making actual QSO's a challenge.
>
> The TCS TX is just the right power on AM to be used with a linear amp for 
> a
> 100-300W carrier signal. A R-388, AR-88, RBG, and others would make a fine
> companion RX in that case
>
> Carl
> KM1H
>
>
>
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> Sent: Saturday, March 24, 2012 3:05 PM
> Subject: Re: [Boatanchors] TCS Tx & Rx
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>> At 12:48 PM 3/24/2012, J. Forster wrote:
>>>I'm no CW op but I'd expect the diode would lengthen the relay release
>>>time, maybe quite a lot.
>>
>> Yes, John: It does lengthen the release due to the back EMF keeping
>> the coil energized
>> But it is not a real problem. Probably not more than 100 ms. Since
>> the relays are not
>> good for much over 25 wpm anyway, even using a bug is OK
>>
>> Perry w8au
>>
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