Just out of curiosity Denny, why weren't you using the Orion II?
Ron N6IE
www.N6IE.com
----- Original Message -----
From: "Dennis OConnor" <ad4hk2004@yahoo.com>
To: <tentec@contesting.com>
Sent: Sunday, October 28, 2007 10:59 AM
Subject: [TenTec] Orion in general, was K4VUD & Titan 425
> For various reasons I wound up doing CQWW on my well modified and massaged
> MK-V and Omni 564, while the O2 lounged at it's leisure over on the other
> radio bench... Both of those radios are polished to the teeth with mods,
> filters, and gadgets and both have served satisfactorily in years past....
> Well, I'm here to tell ya, they ain't the same... It was only about 5
> minutes after zero hundred Friday night and I was already sorely missing
> the crunch proof front end on the big O..... <boy do we get spoiled fast>
> Then, Saturday AM I was trying to work a, water weak swishing in the
> noise, VK1CC on 80 meters when suddenly an 800 pound US gorilla decided to
> exercise his F1 all over me just 1.2 kc up.... <call withheld to protect
> the guilty - but you all know it >
> There was an instantaneous 20dB crash in the SN ratio and charlie-charlie
> was gone baby, gone... No matter what tricks I tried, AGC off, RF cranked
> down, IF shift, 1.8kc filter, etc. my 45th country / 18 th zone, on low
> power 80, was gone... And of course my 100 watts was not enough horse
> power to annoy the gorilla into leaving...
>
>
> denny / k8do
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