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Re: [TenTec] My Omni 6 appears to be fixed

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Subject: Re: [TenTec] My Omni 6 appears to be fixed
From: John Graves <jh.graves@verizon.net>
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Date: Thu, 08 Oct 2009 08:28:53 -0400
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Art,

Very nice....So we again explore the depths of our skill in praise of 
TenTec.   Must be listening to all that CW!

John Graves
WA1JG
jh.graves@verizon.net

Art Trampler wrote:
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> The Fixation of Five Sixty-Three
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> There be strange smoking toil, by the night’s waning oil,
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> When men quell their chirps and their clicks,
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> But the strangest it seems, so near to our dreams
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> Was the night near the snake of the Williams Lake
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> When Joe repaired his old Omni Six.
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> Now Joe was a man who was known as a ham,
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> Who would dit and dah with the best
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> But his dear Omni Six, in need of a fix
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> Had a stuck PLL borne on vapors of hell
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> That gave our dear OM no rest.
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> So Joe turned to the reflector, a knowledge collector
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> Where the oracle was known to lurk
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> And was given good fodder to search for some solder
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> That was cold in the joint-now you see my point
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> That had caused this unsettling quirk.
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> With iron in hand, smoke rings rose in a band
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> Round his head like ethereal wraith
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> And o’er the circuits he went with a hard-focused bent
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> To make tin and lead flow like spilt blood in the snow
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> Yet still t’was an act of his faith.
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> For circuits that die are ne’er hard to come by
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> Yet to resurrect them requires the knack,
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> That is found less these days, lost in mists and in haze
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> To fix what is broken, a repair more than token
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> In the quiet of Joe’s radio shack.
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>  
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> Yet when he was done was he sure he had won,
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> This battle with solder joints cold?
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> It would seem that he was, or that was the buzz
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> Which passed round the net (did you place a bet?)
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> At least that’s how this tale has been told.
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> When at last came the hour when he restored power
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> Cold display pierced the shack’s whelming night
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> He placed his hand to the dial, then turning it while
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> The numbers did change—said I before it was strange
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> QRG dancing now in his sight.
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> Thus a fine fix did Joe bring to his Six,
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> And it plays now as in its youth
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> Each circuit now works, no duty it shirks
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> All joints are now well, yet still cold as hell
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> Hear all you men, ‘tis the truth.
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> So when next you hear Joe’s signal come near
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> I ask you friend, bear this yarn in mind
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> That our Joe was not slow
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> To repair with all care
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> A Six needing a Fix from its bind.
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> There be strange smoking toil, by the night’s waning oil
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> And the strangest by far to these ears
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> Was the night that Joe fought with what Ten-Tec had wrought
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> Coiled near to the snake of that old Williams Lake
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> And it may be the strangest for years.
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>  
> 
> Art 
> 
> KØRO
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