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Re: [TenTec] K2 vs ORION

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Subject: Re: [TenTec] K2 vs ORION
From: "Steve Baron - KB3MM" <SteveBaron@StarLinX.com>
Reply-to: Steve Baron - KB3MM <SteveBaron@StarLinX.com>,tentec@contesting.com
Date: Sun, 14 Dec 2003 16:00:12 -0000
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----- Original Message ----- 
From: "G3JAG" <G3JAG@patents.freeserve.co.uk>
To: <tentec@contesting.com>
Sent: Sunday, December 14, 2003 05:26
Subject: [TenTec] K2 vs ORION


>
> I have an old K2 and an even older Omni-V.9. Yes, I plan to have an ORION
when
> I win the Lotto and that stupid stupid stupid Star Wars HAARP project is

'I'm gunna win da lottery tree times'

> turned off so the ionosphere returns to normal. (I guess that means I will
> never have an ORION, but no wonder the US has a budget deficit bigger than
> mine)
>
> I suggest that the only really important question is not the exact
numbers,
> but how Elecraft managed to achieve such receiver performance in a home
> assembly gizmo at relatively low cost. For that you ought to hear
Elecraft's
> Eric Swartz' presentation on the Elecraft design philosophy. KISS - keep
it
> simple. And thats the way I like my radios, the fewer knobs and buttons
the
> better (and the less to go wrong ???)   If only the Omni-V had a decent
> product detector free from intermod ........

What's wrong with it.  Something I've missed or forget aboiut mine.  My V
is currently in the hospital.

>
> Seasons' Greetings - John G3JAG
>
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