[TenTec] sinister doings

[W5VPU@aol.com]

Hi, Pete, so you finally got it said! 

Since the only desk I had for my potential new radio I been forecasting and 
scouting about for for two or three years was evidently built into my "house 
office" by a frustrated leftie who was taught to write (with his right) by 
tying his left hand behind him, I've had a dickens of a time getting it all 
sorted out. Nothing fit right. Been in this house over five years and until 
now not a radio one would fit and do anything I wanted it to do. I was stuck 
with my 2 meter HT and the local repeaters.

My TR-4 took too much space, then the power supply turned belly up to the 
sky. My Heath HW-99 decided it just didn't want to go no more. I bought a 
used Scout which I had been lusting after several years from a retired 
college professor who said he'd never been inside it. (really?) Only after a 
spell I was once again without. I'd wanted an OMNI VI, but the size of my 
desk-space and also my bank account would not stretch large enough.

Then when I got my Jupiter, it just was the right size to fit into the niche 
you talk about -- small corner on my left, with the mobile pod on my right, 
and lights overhead. Those guys and gals in Seviere County must have had me 
in mind. I just twirl my multi (I first thought that was the title of some 
Middle Easterner Multi-Millionaire) and its companions with my left hand and 
fling my left thumb over to punch in whatever function I want to twiddle with 
next. My  right hand sits hard by the keyboard/pod next to my key and writing 
pad helps me get just where I want to go. Makes this old geezer feel just 
like a kid in high school with a new convertible! 

Wheeeee.

73     Raymond Perkins    W5VPU 





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