I remember he said to dab it on the raised part of the letters, and do it before having the evenings libation.. _______________________________________________ TenTec mailing list TenTec@contesting.c
I almost never buy radios, cars or any thing else for resale value. I use my gear and if sold, it goes the way it is, I don't abuse it but I do use it. some of my gear has scratches form other rigs s
It reminds me of when I was a 16 year old kid, and used those white grease pencil tire markers to make my goodyears look like racing tires.... tom N6AJR In a message dated 6/15/2005 9:48:33 P.M. Paci
My vote is to get one now. You can be enjoying a new rig and learning about the unique possibilites of this rig rather than waiting for something intangible. do you want to save up for a cadilac and
I too can read them (at least for now) and I never learned to touch type, so its two fingers and a thumb for me.. I did not do this mod my self, but was repeating for the other fellow who asked about
i have on with the internal tuner and it works pretty well, and I use a gap voyager and a steppir for its antennas so the tuner is used to just sweeten up the antenna as they are both resonant and no
the orange dot is there, but its next to the ALC invisible writing..:) tom N6AJR In a message dated 6/16/2005 7:27:35 P.M. Pacific Standard Time, ac5aa@juno.com writes: Oh, let me not be the first to
I have recently purchased an orion. and also signed up to this reflector. realise something here on the reflector. These guys are mostly talking about things that on a scale of 1 to 100 are a 1 or a
Hmmmmm...if one is not going to touch any of the programmable options for six months, how does one ascertain, within 30 days, whether or not the rig is 'good enough' to keep? Look in the book for the
<<<Look in the book for the Master reset command, then have a ball, mess it up, reset, mess it up again and Reset. and write down you favorite settings.. then reset..... >>> I must be the only ham in
I think what I am saying is that the orioin has a steep learning curve. either you turn it on and use it as is, or start moving knobs and pushing buttons and some times I did not read page 54 of the
and to answer your question, Yes, buy one Now. its easy , you'll love it ( stolen from the relacore commercial) tom N6AJR _______________________________________________ TenTec mailing list TenTec@co
now if I could only learn how to type ( and spell)... _______________________________________________ TenTec mailing list TenTec@contesting.com http://lists.contesting.com/mailman/listinfo/tentec
One more question Tom .... will the Orion work OK with a fan dipole ? LOL ... Cheers my friend , Bob _______________________________________________ TenTec mailing list TenTec@contesting.com http://l
Is a good radio, and fun, good luck with getting one.. tom N6AJR Well put Tom . Sounds to me like the Orion is a pretty neat radio , and very forgiving . You can play around with it , explore it's fe
Perhaps the reason you could not get it to work in 45 minutes is that some one had screwed it up royaly before you got to it, and maybe it needed to go to an operating capable set up before you got t
And throw in probably up to a week for ups there and another week for ups back , 1 day on the bench for trouble shooting, a couple days or a week to get the parts from the vendor, a day or two to rep
Someone listen on 3.532.6mhz and tell me if you hear something strange. I have a tone that goes from 3.531.5 up to about 3.534.9 snd the auto notch on the orion takes it out.. so it is a transmited s
But there in lies the problem, in the current configuration, this "marginal product" is about twicce a good as most of the rigs from the "big three" and if you compare it to stuff like the ft-840 or
Well, I guess you told me.. by golly, my point is not the fact whether it has a first dit hickup or not the point I was trying to make is on a scale of 1 to 100 this is a 0 or maybe a 1 but it sounds