Why spare us. Rather fun to read..Some of us have a sense of humor!
David
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David H. Walker
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-----Original Message-----
From: tentec-bounces@contesting.com [mailto:tentec-bounces@contesting.com]
On Behalf Of n4dsp
Sent: Sunday, 26 November, 2006 18:08
To: Discussion of Ten-Tec Equipment
Subject: Re: [TenTec] New Radio - Day Ten
What is this all about? Do you like your Orion II?
Are you trying to be some kind of a poet?
Baelzebub? St.Elmos Fire? Spittle from the
corner of his mouth? Peterbuilt plowing through
a fog bank? The smell of ozone?
Spare us.
john-n4dsp
----- Original Message -----
From: "Dennis OConnor" <ad4hk2004@yahoo.com>
To: <tentec@contesting.com>
Sent: Sunday, November 26, 2006 11:55 AM
Subject: [TenTec] New Radio - Day Ten
> Well, I'm still up after 60 hours with only 3 hours sleep during the day
> Sunday... I getting too old for this stuff, jeez... Right now I don' t
> care if I ever hear another static crash - but I'll probably put in a
> couple hours this evening to close the contest out... Right now I have a
> personal best in CQWW CW as SO SB LP 80, way beyond any score in past
> years... The O2 is a huge part of that...
>
> Anyway, the new radio was put through the paces in CQWW ... In spite of
> my best efforts as a sleep deprived, thick fingered, staggering, glass
> eyed zombie, I was not able to crash it - not even once...
> "A multiplier Egor, I must have a multiplier!"
> Igor hunched over, dragging his left leg, painfully moves across the
> stone floor and sits down on the chair of horrror, the right hand trembles
> over the chrome plated instrument of torture, a thin trickle of spittle
> from the corner of his mouth... "Yes Master, I will find one."
> His eyes roll back... He mashes the red knob on the end of the chromium
> bar and crackling St. Elmos Fire billows between his fingers, rises up
> his arm, jumps from his neck to the wires overhead, writhing and pulsing
> as it spirals upwards and sqeezes out the tiny window at the top of the
> dark chamber, ending with a blinding flash... The smell of ozone like
> that from the pits of Baelzebub penetrates the room... The shout for
> another multiplier shakes the very heavens and makes the aether recoil...
> Igor leans forward, his twisted ear pressed to the horn of the coherer
> Alas, only static rebounds from the speaker... No, wait! There, right
> there... Is that one... Igor leans forward more.. A tiny sound, buried in
> static, parts of it cut off and missing... It repeats... Igor's huge
> fingers fumbles across the panel, pushes a button here, turns a knob
> there... The sound fades away, almost gone, then after a short pause
> comes back again, stronger this time, clearer this time... YES! It is
> another multiplier...
> Igor triumphantly raises his huge arm overhead and with a convulsive
> descent smashes away at the red knob, a crescendo of sound rises to the
> heavens, blowing the static aside like a Peterbuilt plowing through a fog
> bank, making the crystal globe of the very universe ring in time with the
> pulsing blows from Igor's huge hand <actually someone elses hand, but
> that's another story>
>
> OK, long story short - This is one righteous radio...
>
> denny / k8do
>
>
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