With the older TT rigs, like the old Omni and Corsair lines, all you have to
do to disable transmit is pull the jumper from the keying loop (TX EN - TX
OUT).
I doubt you'd have any problem with a youngster putting something back to
enable the keying loop
73,
Gary - AB9M
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From: "Kris Merschrod" <Kris@merschrod.net>
Sent: Wednesday, May 12, 2010 1:23 PM
To: "Discussion of Ten-Tec Equipment" <tentec@contesting.com>
Subject: Re: [TenTec] Delta 580 for Young Ham
> Darrell, Geoffrey is correct on the CW. For that age the rig better be a
> simple dial arrangement with band switch for interest in hearing what is
> on
> thair. Too often on more "sophisticated" (Let's call them by name -
> COMPLICATED) rigs a person can get lost and never know where they are.
>
> SO, why not just go for a receiver? Yes, a nice multiband receiver. That
> way you do not have to disconnect anything, and the joy of listening to
> the
> ham bands, plus general coverage, would be his.
>
> On the license part. Ther are usually classes and I think that a young
> person needs the group solidarity, plus elmer, to get with the program.
>
> The two meter rig is another type all together for repeater monitoring.
> One
> can get lost in them too!
>
> HAve fun with the "project."
>
> Kris (KM2KM)
> Merschrod
> 123 Warren Road
> Ithaca, NY 14850
> www.merschrod.net
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "geoffrey mendelson" <geoffreymendelson@gmail.com>
> To: "Discussion of Ten-Tec Equipment" <tentec@contesting.com>
> Sent: Wednesday, May 12, 2010 1:46 PM
> Subject: Re: [TenTec] Delta 580 for Young Ham
>
>
>>
>> On May 12, 2010, at 8:12 PM, Darrell Bellerive wrote:
>>
>>>
>>> In my search for a good radio for him to listen to the bands, I have
>>> decided that a Ten-Tec Delta 580 would be a great starter rig.
>>> Coverage
>>> of all the bands from 160 to 10, and a simple user interface. So I
>>> am in
>>> search of one for him.
>>
>> There are a whole bunch of rigs which would be similar. The earliest,
>> Triton, Triton II, Triton IV, Centurty 21 and 22, and first Omni had
>> analog displays.
>> There was a digital Trition 4 and later Omni, which meant they had the
>> same PTO as the other rigs, but instead of a slide rule dial, they had
>> a digital frequency display.
>>
>> There are some differences in features and power and except for the
>> later Omni's they did not have the WARC bands. The Century one and two
>> are CW only. IMHO (and take it as exactly that), it will be near
>> impossible to interest a child in ham radio with only CW.
>>
>>> Also, being from Canada, I am not well versed in the US licence study
>>> materials. What would be a good study manual for a youngster to get
>>> his
>>> technician licence? I suspect at his age it may take a while until
>>> he is
>>> ready to take a test. I see that there are some hams in the US
>>> licenced
>>> at age 8, so perhaps he will also be one of them.
>>
>>
>> The US has no age limit. He just needs to be able to read and
>> understand English. There is some math in the test, so it may be
>> beyond him. There used to be a series of video tapes from the ARRL
>> (kids love watching video), but they discontinued them and have not
>> released them AFAIK on DVD.
>>
>> There are computer programs which give you a sample question from the
>> pool (the same questions he will be tested with), and check your
>> answer. If you get it wrong, highlights the correct answer so you can
>> memorize the material. After all it does not matter how he learns the
>> limits of the 80m band, or what QST stands for, only that they are
>> part of his memory.
>>
>> An other thing you may want to consider is he a builder (or in the
>> current slang a "maker")? If he is and you can spend the time with
>> him, you may want to introduce him to radio with a series of kits.
>> Start with a no solder crystal radio and work your way up to a
>> recevier. Ten-Tec sells kits you may find appropriate and there are
>> several sites that sell crystal radio parts.
>>
>> Geoff.
>>
>> --
>> geoffrey mendelson N3OWJ/4X1GM
>> Jerusalem Israel geoffreymendelson@gmail.com
>> New word I coined 12/13/09, "Sub-Wikipedia" adj, describing knowledge
>> or understanding, as in he has a sub-wikipedia understanding of the
>> situation. i.e possessing less facts or information than can be found
>> in the Wikipedia.
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
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