Good HAM deal
September 11th, 2009 at 7:54
When I posted the message last month that I bought my Kenwood TS-850, I’ve got a mail from Joerg, DL6IB from Germany.
Joerg did offer me something nice. He bought 2 pieces of the Kenwood TCXO-SO2 in the USA. The first one he had used to build in his own Kenwood TS-870 and the second one he did offer me for a good price. You know I’m a sucker for
accessories. I already did manage to find a voice synthesizer (VS-2), a digital recording unit (DRU-2) and several filters for my precious TS-850 . The only thing that was missing was the temperature compensated cristal oscillator (TCXO-SO2). So it was a very good timing of Joerg to contact me!
But I find it always a little bit scary to just send money over the internet and hope the other end will deliver what he promised.
But yesterday the package arrived and there was my “little bug”. Maybe I’ll mount it this weekend. Then my TS-850 is fully loaded and even more capable of operating so nicely, the way I want it.
Thank you Joerg! Thanks for the offer and it was great doing business with you! Hope to hear you on the bands sometime.
October 8th, 2009 at 21:41
beste om
weet jij soms of erop deze aardbol nog tcxo2 te vinden zijn?zoek al een heeel lange tijd om mijn TS 570 ermee “up te daten”
elke tip aangaande de tcxo2 is welkom
73s
Luc
October 10th, 2009 at 15:03
Hoi Luc,
volgens mij is de TCXO-SO2 nog gewoon leverbaar. Kost wat, maar dan heb je ook wat. Als ik bijvoorbeeld kijk in de optie lijst van Venhorst in Hilversum: http://www.venhorst.nl/main.php?x=prijzenkenw .
73’s, PA1JIM
January 8th, 2010 at 16:48
[...] Some time ago I’ve bought the TCXO-SO-2 option (Temperature Compensated X-tal Oscillator) from Joerg, DL6IB. Although I was very pleased to have the option, I postponed the installing because I wanted to figure out a way to measure the stability improvement before and after installing. Since I don’t own (yet) a frequency counter, I didn’t know a way to check. A few days ago Joerg again send me a message asking me if I already installed the option in my Kenwood TS-850. I was a little ashamed to reply I didn’t. Promised him and myself to do this as quickly as possible. At this new years day I’m a little tired anyway, didn’t feel like anymore work around the house. So I sat down and opened my TS-850. Before I started with installing, I googled around to find a story of installing this option. Didn’t find anything. Okay, it is a pretty simple install but it gives me confidences to read about it. Seems I have to post the first story about installing this option… [...]