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Re: [TenTec] herc 444

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Subject: Re: [TenTec] herc 444
From: "Jim Brown K9YC" <k9yc@audiosystemsgroup.com>
Reply-to: Discussion of Ten-Tec Equipment <tentec@contesting.com>
Date: Sun, 10 Jan 2010 09:56:39 -0800
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On Sun, 10 Jan 2010 06:23:52 -0600 (CST), k8bbm@srt.com wrote:


>any suggestions?
>maybe tentec still would service even if they no longer have finals

1) VERY unlikely. 

2) VERY EXPENSIVE. 

3) Ten Tec rigs of that vintage are fairly easy to work on. All the 
circuitry is no boards that you can take out and work on, the 
circuitry is all discrete transistors and diodes, and the drawings 
are pretty complete. I never worked on my Herc 444 (which I recently 
sold), but I've worked on my three Titan 425s. There's not much in 
them that you can't test with a Simpson 260, and the semiconductors 
(or suitable replacements) are in the junkboxes of most hams that 
have a workbench. If you don't have them, check out the Halted 
website.  

73,

Jim K9YC


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