Of course, the days of us opening up a rig and saliva start dripping from
the corners of our mouth, with the antipication of digging into it to
'improve' it, basically are over.
If you really want to see a very professional mechanical design package,
just open the covers on an Orion. This mechanical design, without a doubt,
is the best thought out mechanical design I think I have ever seen in an
amateur radio. It uses a motherboard concept. The motherboard lies in the
center of the chassis and all of the sub-boards, both in the upper deck and
the lower deck, plug into the motherboard. The result is an extremely clean
system set up. The ONLY cables you see are the black coax signal carrying
cables for most of the functional PC boards. The few exceptions are a few
wires to the RF power module and the top mounted speaker wires.
It is so well done, it makes you NOT want to mess with it!!
In my opinion, Ten Tec deserves a 'BEST EVER' design award for this
mechanical design.
Tom - W4BQF
----- Original Message -----
From: "Alfred Lorona" <w6wqc@dslextreme.com>
To: <tentec@contesting.com>
Sent: Tuesday, July 13, 2004 1:25 PM
Subject: Re: [TenTec] Omni VI+ classic
> I am mildly surprised that one of the more valuable attributes of the Omni
> VI is that it is still (perhaps the only) rig that can still be worked
> on/repaired/modified by the owner. Try that on the teeny-tiny
tightly-packed
> surface-mount construction utilized by most (all?) current rigs. It's a
real
> pleasure to remove the covers on the Omni and see all of that space and
> relatively easy access to everything.
>
> AL, w6wqc
>
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