[TenTec] For Sale: OMNI VI (upgraded to plus) -- I've had it!!

Vince & Betty vbbond@ix.netcom.com
Thu, 27 Jul 2000 17:52:22 -0700


No! Send it to me!! I can always use a second Omni Six Plus!!! Besides, mine
is off a whopping 4-5 Hz and I just can't live with that. I'll rummage
through yours for extra parts so I can repair mine!!!

    Vince/K7NA

> From: "Ken & Rose Kreis" <kia@netins.net>
> Date: Thu, 27 Jul 2000 19:06:49 -0500
> To: "Ten-Tec Reflector" <Tentec@contesting.com>
> Subject: Re: [TenTec] For Sale: OMNI VI (upgraded to plus) -- I've had it!!
> 
> 
> Dale,
> 
> ship that inaccurate piece of junk to the address below. I can use that
> lousy rig in my truck for mobile. The faulty display will not bother me
> because I don't look at the display when mobile.
> 
> Ship to:
> 
> Ken Kreis, KA0W
> 1064 Hickory Ave.
> Rudd, IA 50471
> kia@netins.net
> 
> 
> 
> 
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Dale L Martin" <kg5u@hal-pc.org>
> To: "Ten-Tec Reflector" <Tentec@contesting.com>
> Sent: Thursday, July 27, 2000 6:27 PM
> Subject: [TenTec] For Sale: OMNI VI (upgraded to plus) -- I've had it!!
> 
> 
>> 
>> 
>> After reading about someone's experiences with getting their radio back in
>> calibration, I decided to check mine.
>> 
>> My OMNI VI (upgraded to plus) is 18 Hz off frequency.
>> 
>> Now, I've only had this radio since 1996 and the darn thing is already
> that
>> far off.  This is just no good.  What's happened to ham radio?
>> 
>> I can't live with this 18 Hz off frequency business.
>> 
>> How am I ever going to make another QSO?
>> 
>> I'm tired of people telling me I'm 18 Hz off frequency.  Geez.
>> 
>> I can't work DX anymore because I can't find them from the packet spots
>> given on the local PacketCluster.
>> 
>> This 38 Hz off-frequency business is really a downer.
>> 
>> I don't wear watches anymore because they lose or gain time after a while.
>> The last one I had lost 3 seconds over about 9 months.  Geez.
>> 
>> I even got rid of an Athlon 900 MHz computer because the clock was off by
>> 0.05 seconds over four months.  Intolerable.
>> 
>> I've finally put a piece of electrical tape over the lower right-hand
> corner
>> of the monitor screen just so I don't have to be reminded about how far
> off
>> the clock of my old 386 computer is (at last check, it was 0.0004 seconds
>> off and that was based on the average of 57 different time checks to
> account
>> for multi-path propagation delays).
>> 
>> What's happened to technology??????
>> 
>> 
>> Dale L. Martin, KG5U
>> kg5u@hal-pc.org
>> http://www.hal-pc.org/~kg5u
>> 
>> :-)
>> 
>> 
>> 
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