[TenTec] Ad in AES Catalog...

[Bill Rowlett]

Why point at the map, with the proper control software, your radio now will 
tune to the latest cluster spot, and your beam will be on the correct 
heading.

Aw, the joy of computer control and the nightmare of a lockup in the middle 
of a contest.

73,  Bill  kc4atu
FM19ga

>From: "Jeff Imel" <jeffimel at hotmail.com>
>Reply-To: tentec at contesting.com
>To: <tentec at contesting.com>
>Subject: Re: [TenTec] Ad in AES Catalog...
>Date: Wed, 21 Apr 2004 15:04:05 -0500
>
><<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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