[TenTec] The Orion Watch

[Carl Moreschi]

My decoder ring was actually a small silver jet.  On the bottom of the jet
was a pointer that had 4 points.  There was an alphabet around the pointer.
You moved the pointer to a letter.  The other end of the pointer had 3 small
points labelled "1", "2" and "3".  You could get 3 different codes out of it
like that.

Carl Moreschi N4PY
Franklinton, North Carolina
n4py at earthlink.net
----- Original Message -----
From: "Troy Wideman" <w6hv at surfbest.net>
To: <tentec at contesting.com>
Sent: Saturday, May 17, 2003 1:33 AM
Subject: Re: [TenTec] The Orion Watch


> I remember those decoder rings, but I think ours were some sort of metal.
> Nobody in the house wanted to drink that lousy "Ovaltine", but you know
what
> the deal was ! If my little brother and I wanted those rings, we drank the
> stuff. Yuck.
>  Jim,
>  Enjoy the Orion! Naturally, a full report is expected.
> 73,
> Troy, W6HV
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Bill Brannick" <wmlb at sbcglobal.net>
> To: <Tentec at contesting.com>
> Sent: Friday, May 16, 2003 5:11 PM
> Subject: [TenTec] The Orion Watch
>
>
> > Jim's situation reminds of way back when. (I am a little
> > older then many here)
> >
> > We sent in our Ovaltine label and 10 cents and waited and
> > waited for that Captain Midnight decoder ring. I was on the
> > curb every day 30 minutes..prior to the arrival of the mail
> > man. Weeks passed and finally it arrived.. As great as it
> > looked in the pictures.. it was made of cardboard... very
> > thin cardboard...  Maybe one or two secret messages and then
> > it pretty much fell apart..
> >
> > But don't worry Jim.. I think Ten-Tec uses better stuff in
> > that Orion.
> >
> > Bill, W6WLB
> >
> >
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