[TenTec] Orion SSB Challenge...

[Ten-Tec Inc. Amateur Radio Sales]

At 12:18 PM 10/11/03 -0400, you wrote:
>
>It is kind of curious that you don't hear very many on a day to day basis. If
>most of them are on CW, that would explain it, but it seems to be alot of
>radio for only CW.

I'm surprised by this for a couple of reasons - 1) there are many of these
rigs out in circulation now after 6 months of shipping.  2) Outside of
contesting, I'm a fairly casual op, only on the air 2 or 3 nights a week,
but I keep hearing them on the air all the time - and I have been making
an effort to break away from only operating CW and listen on SSB
more often.

Had fun last night listening to W3MC and N3JT in a QRQ QSO on
3.528 while trying to break the ZA1A pileup on 7.006 in the other
ear using the Orion.  Then when 'MC quit I got a chance to talk to
him for a few minutes before he went off to sleep.

>  Sometimes you have to unlearn some of your old expectations to be
>able to operate something new properly. 73.

Yes - no question about it.

Scott Robbins
W4PA

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