[TenTec] Re: Another Orion FS !

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Jim Reid wrote:

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>>Damn Jim.
>>Good price.
>>If I wasn't still tangled up  with the relocation, I'd buy it.
>>Ship over to Honolulu would be cheap too ;-)
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>Well,  you better buy it quick!!
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Need to find a house first.
Darn Honolulu real estate has gone up 50% since we decided to make the move.
Waiting for Linda to earn tenure(she has) prior to buying has come back 
to bite us.
It's looking like we're going to have to put ourselves up for Hawaiian 
adoption in order
to find something we can afford.
UH faculty housing rent is low, but no room for shack and working on my 
old BMW.

Well that, or I'm going to have to find a job. Not so easy at 50 and 
with ones speciality
being 'generalist' :-) and having been self employed for the past 14 
years. Everyone wants
a 50YO to be a specialist on career track.

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>>Are you doing field day?
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>No,  not likely.  My vision is in a bit of a mess,  so would not
>be too useful there,  hi.  The Kauai club sets up at Island School,
>one of the tuition charging private ones here on the island.  They
>have some very bright students,  some of whom usually
>come have a look at the Field Day going's on and do get
>interested in ham radio that way.  A couple have been licensed
>as  a result -- good results!
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Good on the Kauai kids. My daughter is still interested in ham radio but 
she is busy with school.
Calculus 2 and physics this summer.  She'll be a junior(architecture) at 
Ga Tech this Fall.
She hope to do grad school at rhode Island School of Design. She was 
accepted with 1/2
scholarship as an undergrad, but the Ga Tech undergrad program offers a 
lot more of the
practical side of architecture. Ga tech is in top 10 of world undergrad 
architecture programs.
The kids do their senior year in Paris at the departments founding 
university.
Son has no interest. He will be sophmore(double major, math and history) 
at Ga State this
fall. He's more interested in game theory and chasing girls than ham 
radio. He wants to transfer
to Georgetown(CIA) but will need another year of good grades as we only 
put aside enough $
to see them through 5 years of in-state tuition and he'll need a 
scholarship to make up the difference.

Son and Linda spent a week on Kauai two summers back. We've some 
Hawaiian friends who
moved back for retirement.

You don't need good vision for field day! Your Orion config suggests 
your a CW op (I've only
heard you on phone though). Typically it's a two man job, one at the key 
and primary copy and
another with the dupe sheets and log. I've operated off and on for years 
with W4RRW up
in Pickens County GA. W4RRW passed away a few years back, but we still 
use his farm,
radios,and call. It will be fun to work tem from the KARC site.

If your Orion isn't gone by now, then no one is looking for one! Again, 
I'd have jumped on it
if I had a place to use it. It's way more radio than I need for use with 
the 4BTV vertical set up
at beach park next to the car.

Suggest rethinking field day. IMO it's the 2nd best thing in ham radio 
after grey line and
antipodal DX on 160/80/40 from Pacific Islands!

73,
-Bob
AH7I