A week or so back, I was digging into the attic and ran across a radio I bought from a local ham not long before he had a fatal heart attack — a Tempo 2020 with VFO and speaker.
Now at the time, the room that currently serves as our bedroom was a storage room, and the Tempo 2020 ended up in there. After a year or two in there, my wife decided to clean that room up, and she moved everything that wasn’t hers into the attic, which included a boat load of my ham radio stuff — including the Tempo 2020.
Now at some time between the time I bought the rig and the time I dug it out of the attic, the rig’s top panel disappeared. I have never seen that top panel since (though I wouldn’t be surprised if it was elsewhere in the attic). Anyway, I pulled the Tempo 2020 out of the attic and plan to clean it up. Where the hell do you find a replacement top panel?? Truth is, you can’t.
After giving it some thought, I decided to pull the trigger on a parts Tempo 2020 listed on eBay. It was more expensive than I wanted to pay, but it will provide two things I need — a serviceable top panel, and a power cord.
The attic Tempo rig DOES work, and other than attic dust and mud daubers nests, the rig is complete. The accessory speaker is actually downstairs in my shack. The VFO is God-knows-where. While browsing eBay tonight, someone had just listed a Tempo 2020 VFO for a decent price; I decided to buy it to pair with my rig and matching speaker.
I have one Tempo 2020 station already, and I can tell you that the Tempo 2020 is one of my favorite CW rigs. Even static crashes sound grand on the Tempo, hi hi!
I don’t know how much time I’ll have to work on the Tempo 2020, as I really need to focus on the shack to prepare for the new gear. All things in good time, I suppose!
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