On Sun, 24 Jun 2012 23:35:05 -0400 (EDT), Lee Craner wrote: >Reminds me of a field day many yearrs ago. One of our three some brought his >then brand new TS940. That was to be our primary xcvr, with my "old" TR-7 as >back up. As it turned out, his fancy Kenwood couldn't handle generator >fluctuations, questionable grounding, etc. and kept locking up or powering >down. The TR-7 saved the weekend and I never let him forget that.
Great story, Lee! One of our club members has one of those fancy YaeComWood BFG-9000 radios with the huge LCD color display and every bell and whistle imaginable, that he usually brings to run 40 CW. I think it was the first year he brought it, a generator hiccup blew the LCD backlight. Now he uses a battery system to power it. I have the TR-7 up and running before he even finishes loading in. Even with the fancy aircraft headset and the SP-75, there's less stuff to plug in. Between the two core runners and several more casual operators, we did 740 Qs on 20 fone (353 of which were moi). The rig didn't even break a sweat, so to speak. The TR-7 consistently impresses me with it's ability to dig a signal out through heavy QRM. There were times when 20 seemed to blast wide open and everyone could hear everyone else, and you couldn't tell who was talking to who. Great fun! True story, a few years ago a relatively new ham who was a major IC-706-2G fan said of the TR-7, "I can't believe how easy it is to hear signals on that radio!" Another ham who has a clue expressed that "The TR-7 hears EVERYTHING and it hears NOTHING". I'll probably have to explain that one to some people.... :) 73 -Jim NU0C -- Ham Radio NU0C Lincoln, Nebraska, U.S.S.A. TR7/RV7/R7A/L7, TR6/RV6, T4XC/R4C/L4B, NCL2000, SB104A, R390A, GT550A/RV550A, HyGain 3750, IBM PS/2 - all vintage, all the time! "Give a man a URL, and he will learn for an hour; teach him to Google, and he will learn for a lifetime." HyGain 3750 User's Group - http://groups.yahoo.com/group/HyGain_3750/ http://incolor.inetnebr.com/jshorney http://www.nebraskaghosts.org _______________________________________________ Drakelist mailing list [email protected] http://mailman.zerobeat.net/mailman/listinfo/drakelist
