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From: pstrdave@kdsi.net (David Heintzleman)
Date: Mon, 20 May 2002 08:17:33 -0500
I SURE UNDERSTAND THIS - i keep coming back to my Onmi C and accessories
- it and the Triton 544 are the most fun
Dave K8BBM


Clark Savage Turner wrote:
> 
> OK.  I've been planning to just buy the Orion whenever it comes out,
> even if the knob is the wrong color.  I just want to work one for a
> while.
> 
> I love my OMNI-VI.
> 
> But that OMNI-C came by a few weeks ago, pretty cheap, I snapped it up
> just to play with it.  My usual routine is to buy a fairly clean radio,
> get it into my shack, clean it up to make it look really nice, do the
> PTO till its just right, align it, play more, then when I think it is
> just right for me, I come up short for the monthly bills or something
> and I sell it off.
> 
> This OMNI-C is different.  The face has smudges and some numbers are
> rubbed off.  The plastic sheet on the case is coming off at the
> corners.  Other stuff is not quite right about its appearance.  The PTO
> really needs TLC, and the external VFO needs the same, plus a dialcord.
> Stuff like that.  No big deal, really.
> 
> But then I just plain operated the thing.  Got on SSB.  Got on CW.  Got
> on CW again.  It was fun.  I did it yet again.  I like this radio.
> <Steve Ellington filter ON>  I now find myself using the OMNI-C to the
> exclusion of my OMNI VI and even my K2.  It is just fun to operate, and
> under normal circumstances it works so well and sounds so "good" that I
> have no desire for the other rigs.  I see that I cannot possible fix
> this radio up, can't clean the faceplate or try to redo the numbers.
> I'm not sure I should rebuild the PTO either, it might become too much
> of  a "project".  I just like the "quiet" receiver, I like the
> filtering, I like the QSK.  I even lucked out that the PTO in the
> external VFO is really stable.  I mean really stable.  Never saw one
> that good.  I am afraid to touch it.  So the dialcord sags and the
> pointer drops out of the window.  What do I care?  I have had more QSO's
> in the last week than in the last year.  Here I am, wanting the RX-350 /
> Jupiter combo, I want to buy the Orion, and the OMNI-C stole my heart.
> <Steve Ellington filter OFF>
> 
> My wife thinks this is great.  She thinks I might save some money this
> way.  If I can just stop collecting SWR and wattmeters I should be able
> to buy a house someday.
> 
> Clark
> WA3JPG
> 
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