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4.17 NOVICE
OPERATION
The Kenwood
TS-900 offers the unique opportunity to the
beginning amateur
of buying a top quality ham rig which
adapts to novice operation at very little cost. So the initial
equipment investment is good for what ever level of license
to which the operator advances.
For the novice to operate the Kenwood
within
the legal
power limitation, all he has to do is remove one of the final
tubes from the final RF section and replace it with a low
cost module available from your dealer. Alternately, adjust
the
carrier
level control
to keep
the plate input
power
. below
75 watts
(approximately
90 ma).
Adjusting
the
carrier
level
yields
much
less power
output
because
it
reduces the efficiency of the tubes. Then to crystal control
the transceiver
just use
the fixed channel
feature of the
TS-900. When the transceiver is used with the external VFO
or
with
the
R-599
there
are
five
additional
channels
available for. fixed frequency operation.
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