Now you are going to have a lot of fun. I hope to work
you Qrion to Orion .
After having mine 5 weeks .I sure am liking it more
and more everyday .
73 de WB4QDA John
--- Jim Reid <jimr.reid@verizon.net> wrote:
> It is here!!
>
> Fed Ex truck drove up at 0056Z (2:56pm HST).
>
> Now unpacked and ready for what comes next, hi.
> The
> very fine shipping box was in great shape; same for
> the contents.
>
>
> > Captain Midnigh't's secret decoder ring! Yep, had
> one of those.
>
> Me to.
>
> My bigger disappointment was my Jack Armstrong
> "magic
> answer box"; a small, red box. You pressed your
> thumb
> firmly against the side after asking a question; a
> needle
> deflected a bit to some sort of truth scale or some
> such.
> But it really never told me any great truths of
> life!
>
> > At least, we don't have to send our money in weeks
> or
> > months in advance and then wait for our toys to
> come
> > Railway Express.
>
> That's the way the EF Johnson Co. shipped my Viking
> II kit
> many decades ago. And yes, I had to bicycle down
> to
> the So. Pacific RR station at the Railway Express
> office
> every afternoon after the So. Pacific Daylight
> steamed
> through town. The day the huge, heavy box at last
> came, I had to get my Mom to drive to the station
> to
> pick the thing up, hi. My dad had bought the kit
> as
> a birthday gift for me (after much begging on my
> part).
>
> Those were truly the days..........
>
> 73, Jim KH7M
>
>
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