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[TenTec] Contesting and the OMNI-VI+

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Subject: [TenTec] Contesting and the OMNI-VI+
From: kf5mc@flash.net (Joseph Pursley)
Date: Sat, 05 Sep 1998 18:29:14 -0500
Contest magazines as all rags depend on who pays the most for advertizing. I
have no more to say about that............As for split frequency operation,
it makes more enimies of contesters than anything else. Screaming a call on
a frequency that is already occupied is counter productive and is becoming
an Achiles heal to contesting...joe

Jim Reid wrote:

> -----Original Message-----
> From: JAMES T BRANNIGAN <JTBRANNIGAN@prodigy.net>
> To: Dale L. Martin <kg5u@hal-pc.org>; Ten-Tec Reflector
> <Tentec@contesting.com>
To: <tentec@contesting.com>
> Date: Saturday, September 05, 1998 8:24 AM
> Subject: Re: [TenTec] CT 9.37 and OMNI-VI+
>
> >
> >>>For some strange reason the OMNI-VI is not a favorite of
> >>contesters..
>
> >ICOM's and the YAESU FT-1000's seem to be the rig of choice for the big
> >contest stations...
>
> There has been quite a discussion in CQ-Contest magazine last
> year on this topic.  It has mostly to do with how the incremental
> tuning operates on the Omni.  As I recall,  not positive,  there
> exists some prohibited time,  when you are doing something
> else,  maybe listening to the DX on split,  the transmittal
> incremental tuning will not operate,  or something like that.
>
> As a result of this prolonged dialogue,  few issues of the mag,
> and maybe on the CQ-contest reflector,  a letter was sent to
> Ten Tec describing whatever the  changes the "Contest
> Community" had decided they would like to see.
>
> Seems later on,  that something was in the magazine/
> on the reflector that Ten Tec was pretty much ignoring
> the raised issues,  or had chosen not to bother,  or
> something.
>
> Anyway,  for whatever it is worth,  those are my recollections,
> and they are probably certainly not completely correct nor
> complete!
>
> 73,   Jim,  KH7M
>
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