#Ten tec triton iv review full
#Ten tec triton iv review free

The receiver is very sensitive, quiet and great for DX work. If you use a TT power supply such as the 262M, power will shut down (protecting the finals) to prevent transmitting into an excessive SWR. Band changes require only peaking receive signals with the Resonate switch and tuning the antenna. The rig has performed flawlessly for me since. They helped me troubleshoot the damage and sent me replacement circuit boards at no charge. Due to some UPS shipping damage, I had to contact the Ten Tec service department soon after the rig arrived.

#Ten tec triton iv review full

I installed the optional CW filter, NB and crystals for full 10M coverage. Not into CW? Why not comment about your SSB mobile experiences.I still have a Ten Tec Triton IV/544 that my parents purchased for me back in 1978. If so, why not comment on your best contact or a challenging contact? After hearing news stories about young men and women dying behind the wheel due to text messaging, becoming a statistic is not what I have in mind. Copying a QSO in my head at 55+ is best left to someone younger and more daring than I care to be these days. However, I am older (any maybe a little wiser now) and will park my butt before starting a QSO. After hearing that QSO I am getting the itch to pick up some more QRP gear and start banging the paddles again from the mobile. It appears that the low bands are coming around for more DXing fun.

There seems to be some signs of life in the low bands again. That did it, it gave me the bug again! Now I want to start pulling more mobile stuff out of storage. He worked a GB4 station ( Special Event РІР‚вЂњ Isle of Man). Yesterday I was tuning my Ten-Tec Triton IV Model 544 and heard a guy (not QRP) calling CQ around 7010 from his mobile in Alabama. (I never told him that I was operating through the beam antenna!) I bet he will always remember that contact. Then he proceeded to go on and on about my signal from the little old 9040. I then told the op in PA that I was running 5 watts. My friend and I were both laughing so hard our sides were splitting. I asked him what I was actually showing on his meter and he told me it was 20 over. We got into a QSO and he gave me a 599 report. Man, he was hammering the front end of that toy radio. All of a sudden I got a guy from PA coming back to me. Anyway, I remember making a bunch of contacts without having to call CQ over and over and good signal reports were of course real easy to get. With all that hardware in front of this peanut rig, I knew it would be a blast. I asked him if I could connect the 9040 to his beam. He lived so close to the Atlantic Ocean that he didnРІР‚в„ўt need much height on the antenna. He just РІР‚Сљhappened to haveРІР‚Сњ a Tri-Band beam up about 20 feet in his back yard. One day I went over for a visit and brought my MFJ 9040 with me. My Ham friend in East Moriches was always the РІР‚Сљ bah humbug typeРІР‚Сњ when it came to CW and he thought QRP was a total joke. Talk about ways to become hooked on a hobby. Yep, we worked him and got a 539 signal report. We were just getting onto the Belt Parkway and I was tuning around on his HW9 when I heard an OM3 calling from Western Slovakia.

#Ten tec triton iv review free

I ha d some free time that day and took the ride. He was also a CW / QRP / M nut like myself.

Some years ago, a friend of mine was going to take a trip to central New Jersey to pick up some Collins gear. I am still kicking myself today for being dumb enough to part with this little gem. Hey! Got one for sale? Contact me, IРІР‚в„ўd be interested. One of itРІР‚в„ўs best features was the fact that it could be easily switched from 5 to 50 watts when band conditions began to deteriorate. I made so many contacts with this rugged old timer that I do miss it from time to time. It was always a lot of fun and a real challenge to make contacts into Europe and many other places on my old Ten-Tec Argosy 525 while driving down the highway at 55+ MPH with the 40 Meter Hamstick flapping around. You can find the link to N8ZYAРІР‚в„ўs Blog on the sidebar. N8ZYAРІР‚в„ўs recent Blog post about working QRP and making a 2000+ mile contact brought back great memories of the last solar cycle and the fun time I had when I worked a lot of CW / QRP / M.