[TenTec] Ad in AES Catalog...

[Jeff Imel]

<<What they need is a built-in mouse connection and an on-display world map
so that all you had to
do was point at a part of the world, and it would automatically change to a
frequency where the DX you wanted was on the air.>>

Richard, that is the funniest thing I have read all day!  You made me spit
my Coke all over my keyboard!  I am still laughing!

73

Jeff
KB9ZUR



----- Original Message -----
From: "Richard Donovan" <n5xm at alltel.net>
To: <tentec at contesting.com>
Sent: Wednesday, April 21, 2004 12:18 PM
Subject: [TenTec] Ad in AES Catalog...


>    With anticipation, I opened the newest AES catalog, knowing it would be
the
> same old stuff with higher prices, and by darn if there wasn't a 2 page
inside
> cover ad for the high zoot IC-7800.  This was the first time I'd actually
> taken the time to look at the rig, and it's the busiest looking thing I've
> ever seen in ANY kind of electronic gear.
>     About 1330 today, I worked a JA who was using one, and with the lousy
band
> condx, there wasn't much to say except I logged him.  Anyway, I pulled out
the
> catalog again to give the ad a real close inspection, and that sucker has
125!
> controls on the front panel.  Unless I've counted incorrectly, my Orion is
a
> veritable desert at only 72 controls on the front panel.
>       I'm sure the 7800 is a wonderful platform, but where does this stuff
> stop?  Yaesu will soon have their DX 9,000,000 out, so what happens next?
The
> Ten Tec Uranus?  I'll happily keep my Orion, thank you.  What they need is
a
> built-in mouse connection and an on-display world map so that all you had
to
> do was point at a part of the world, and it would automatically change to
a
> frequency where the DX you wanted was on the air.  I'm gonna have to
polish up
> my crystal ball, I guess.  n5xm
>
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