[CQ-Contest] Help Me Brothers!

[Dennis O'Connor]

Get the MK-V !
 You will learn to like sulphur and brimstone... I did...


Denny

----- Original Message -----
From: "Dan Levin" <djl at andlev.com>
To: <cq-contest at contesting.com>
Sent: Tuesday, March 26, 2002 12:02 AM
Subject: [CQ-Contest] Help Me Brothers!


> With apologies in advance to any that may be offended by my profanity.
>
> Help Me Brothers, for I am sorely tempted.
>
> I come to you, my brothers, in my hour of need.  Lend me your support,
that
> I may be strong and pass this aweful test.  I am tempted brothers, tempted
> by the devil most profane.  Do not abandon me my brothers in this, my hour
> of need.
>
> I have never strayed from the path, my brothers, never in the 21 long
years
> of my service to the cause.  My first radio, of course, was a TS-830S, and
> from that point on I have stayed the course against all temptation.  My
> father, it must be said, allowed himself to stray.  An Icom he did buy,
and
> sad was I for years to come.  But I have been strong, and despite the
> Devil's evil offers I have always been true.  A pair of beautiful
TS-850S's
> adorn my alter today.
>
> But I am tempted my brothers, tempted by an evil so strong that I am not
> certain that I can sustain my faith against it.  It comes to me in my
dreams
> my brothers, with images of dual receivers with separate AGC systems.  It
> comes to me as I walk my path in the daylight brothers.  Why just today I
> saw an image of the Enhanced Digital Signal Processing as I passed through
> the garden.  And the power my brothers, 100 watts output with either 120
> volt or 13.8 volt power - all in a lighter weight package with no messy
> external heat sinks.
>
> Oh my brothers, I am sorely tempted.  Help me my brothers, lest I fall
from
> the path.
>
> And the price!  The Price my brothers.  Only $1999 this week only.  Oh my
> brothers, only $1999 for perhaps the finest contesting radio ever made.
>
> Yes my brothers, it is the new FT-1000MP Mark V Field that tempts me, it
> tests my strength my brothers.
>
> Is there amongst you one, even one, who can turn me aside from this
course?
> Can anyone tell me that its receiver is poor, or that the IBDT system is
> flawed, or that the VRF front end protection module is just marketing
hype?
> Can one of you save me, my brothers, from the terrible fate that lies
ahead?
>
> For it you cannot, I fear that I will fall from grace this week my
brothers,
> in time to use the dual RX capability on 40 meters during WPX SSB this
> weekend.  So if you can speak against this evil, do so now, that I may be
> spared.  It is not a lack of faith in my trusty TS-850S that is causing me
> this pain, my brothers.  No, not that.  It is the terrible temptation of
the
> Mark V Field that comes to me - and I know not if I can stand against it.
>
>             ***dan, K6IF (KT6RU in WPX SSB)
>
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