[Orion] Orion: Non Tuner Orion

[Mark Ericksen]

Vince, you don't have to wait for you wife to leave town to take delivery of 
a new radio.  Order the radio well in advance of your wife leaving for her 
trip, and have it delivered to the nearest UPS facility where it will be 
held for you to pickup.  From there you can keep the radio hidden in the 
garage, under the bed, in the trunk of the car, etc.; and it will be ready 
for you to unbox as soon as she leaves.  I have found that women in general 
find that things like radios all look the same, so if you already have a 
radio in the house swap it out with the new one, and she may not know the 
difference.  I find that it helps to cover the radio up with a towel when 
not being used.  It could be months, if ever, before she finds out what you 
have done.

I have found that something like the purchase of a new radio is on a need to 
know basis, and why does the wife really need to know?  I have been giving 
this a lot of thought lately because I have been wanting to purchase a new 
radio, and the best time to do it will be when my wife is out of town 
visiting her son in Texas in March.  If I swap the new radio with my current 
rig, which is sitting on my desk, covered with a towel, next to the computer 
that she uses every day, she will never know.

Vince, be bold and good luck.

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Vince" <k7na at adelphia.net>
To: <orion at contesting.com>
Sent: Monday, February 28, 2005 10:54 PM
Subject: [Orion] Orion: Non Tuner Orion


>      I am planning to order a non-tuner Orion this summer. The timing is
> rather critical in that I want the unit to arrive around July 5th just
> following the departure of my XYL on her European vacation. I plan to stay
> home for two weeks from work, receive my Orion and hopefully have two
> uninterrupted weeks of ham radio bliss before she returns and demands to
> know, "What is THAT?!"
>    I'm told by TT that the wait is about 30 days. I get the impression 
> from
> recent posts that the REAL wait is quite a bit longer. What is the real 
> wait
> time and when should I plan to call TT to place the order? Inquiring minds
> need to know!
>
> Vince K7NA
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