[TenTec] Re: Tentec digest, Vol 1 #17 - 1 msg

[Allan Henry Kaplan]

Paul wrote:"I put my hands on a Jupiter last weekend.  I thought the
display looked
> fine.  It is not color of course.  The overall quality looked fantastic.
> The guy that had it for sale said he was selling because it doesnt have a
> band scope but it definately does have one so I am not sure what was going
> on with that. ...."

Jupiter has a band scope, but it is not "real-time". When you push the
SWEEP button Jupiter sweeps the selected range about the tuned frequency
and displays the activity pattern on the screen as a snapshot.  To
update the picture, you push SWEEP once to clear the display and again
to take a new shot.  A real-time band scope, while desirable, would have
substantially increased Jupiter's price. 

Allan Kaplan, W1AEL
Ten-Tec Engineering.