Re: [TenTec] post sweepstakes

["Ten-Tec Inc. Amateur Radio Sales" <sales@tentec.com>]

Mmmmmm......

The Omni-VI is a great contest rig - no question.

Still.....

After using SO2R this weekend in SS CW with an Omni-VI Plus
and an Orion, I'd wish I'd gotten off my lazy *** and taken the
second Orion home out of the visitor's radio room to use instead
of the other Omni.  I decided I didn't want to take it down there,
re-arrange the desk....I don't know what I was thinking.

I loaned my Orion to K4JNY three weeks ago so he could get
some pre-contest air time on it before this fall's contest season.
Jeff ran 1300+ QSO's running 15 meter single band with our new
6/6 long boom stack (erected on Oct. 17), the Orion and Titan
425 in CQ WW SSB.  Went great for SS, but I had to stifle the
urge to keep moving the Orion to the run band - would have been
solved had I just brought the second one with me.  Next time....

73
Scott Robbins W4PA


At 04:01 PM 11/8/04 -0500, you wrote:
> Almost indisputable Al!! My Orion sat silent ......I just have no
> confidence in it operating for 30 hours
> continious, with no failures. It is, as you say, personal
> choice/opinion. To change bandwidth, on the Plus, you punch one
> button and if necessary, fiddle with PBT. With the Orion, there are
> just too many controls to vary; if you happen to be running a high
> rate of Q's, turning knobs is the last thing you want to be doing.
> All personal choice.
>
> Tom - W4BQF
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Alfred Lorona" <w6wqc@dslextreme.com>
> To: <tentec@contesting.com>
> Sent: Monday, November 08, 2004 2:17 PM
> Subject: [TenTec] post sweepstakes
>
>
> > Post sweepstakes comment. The Omni VI + remains the best cw
> contest rig ever
> > designed and crafted by man or beast not only for it's superb
> performance
> > but for ease of operation in a contest environment.
> >
> > Having said that, results depend on 15.23 percent equipment and
> 84.77
> > percent operator. Feel free to dispute this ratio.
> >
> > 73, AL w6wqc
> >
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