You're playing a game of "mine's bigger than yours". If you choose to believe that it's certainly your right. I've just gotten through watching you do it. You've attacked Bob Heil and his products.
It's getting nasty and personal. Mark, PA5MW You guys? It already got personal and nasty before I made a comment. Dave K8MN No virus found in this outgoing message. Checked by AVG - www.avg.com Versi
All we are suggesting is that TenTec (being in Tennessee) would be in a better position to service any repair, warranty, or shipping damage issues than the designer would be way over in China -- just
I am a retired bankruptcy lawyer. I could not agree more !!! I have witnessed the damage first hand. == JHR == Let's not be shortsighted. We need more manufacturing jobs and less service jobs. Geoffr
I couldn't have put it better myself! Dave Heil K8MN No virus found in this outgoing message. Checked by AVG - www.avg.com Version: 9.0.801 / Virus Database: 271.1.1/2806 - Release Date: 04/12/10 06:
I have heard by the serious tech heads call the Ten Tec dragonball processor the "Tarball" as it is old technology. Old technology? I bought my Orion in 2003. How old can the technology be? I have an
Ralph Matheny wrote: I wonder if anybody has successfully changed the display in an Orion in the field. My display is getting pretty bad (lines, dark places) and I am going to nhave to give in and ma
Gentlemen, I might have better thoughts of some of you if there were no internet and if I hadn't been exposed to some of your private thoughts. Are you not capable of being embarrassed? Dave Heil K8M
No, Douglas, I have not. I think this is healthy bitching myself and rightly so I might add. I can't agree with you that it is healthy or right. Dave K8MN Gentlemen, I might have better thoughts of s
Jim Miller wrote: Several years ago when the 4CX-1600B amps were discontinued by Alpha, QRO, & Ten-Tec, I wrote Ray @ QRO ad asked, in a worse case scenario, would my HF-3KDX be converted to a pair o
It is not my intent to be insulting to you, Bob, but what places you in a position to admonish contest ops? And as Ken said, their operating practice is "probably not a good operating practice". Oh b
$428.57 using the Consumer Price Index $527.56 using the GDP deflator $335.24 using the value of consumer bundle $362.57 using the unskilled wage $190.63 using the nominal GDP per capita $114.09 usin
Aside from that, the default on this list is that replies go to the list and not to the sender. So more than 1,300 list members have to read what should have been a private communication. There are a
Dennis OConnor wrote: An Omni 6 (Model 563) with the 6+ option is still a Model 563... A factory Omni 6+ is a Model 564... Having both I know the difference... And while the 'optioned' 563 works elec
Not by any serious contester, it doesn't. In numerous domestic contests one who gives his contest exchange info followed by, "QSL?" or one who proclaims, "QSL" after he has received an exchange from
Spent lots of circuit time having to conform to strict rules using Q and Z signals. I have a list here of some rather odd and very unofficial Q sigs if anyone interested. One of my favorites: ZBM-2 D
One of my favorites: ZBM-2 Did you use it often? :-) Often in jest. A few times in earnest. Nothing like trying to secure a station late at night in some African spot and having to deal with a guy w
Many years have passed since I heard ZBM-2 sent to another op. I was a CW operator in Resolute Bay.. Think anyone deserves it these days? (Hi) I hung it up professionally in 2000. By that time, no on
Wasn't the Ten Tec Paragon sold under GSA contract to government agencies? I wonder if any are tucked away in a corner of an embassy comm room somewhere... Just in case. At least one such station sho
Quite a number of U.S. embassies had HF backup until the mid-1990's. Most of them in the third world have SSB "Emergency & Evacuation" gear, but none for the record traffic circuit. There's so much d