[TenTec] Orion panel readibility

[Reg Unsworth]

what embossed lettering?  ;>)

73
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Duane A Calvin" <ac5aa at juno.com>
To: <tentec at contesting.com>
Sent: Thursday, June 16, 2005 4:31 AM
Subject: Re: [TenTec] Orion panel readibility


> Frankly, I don't understand why TT doesn't do this at the factory.  The
> embossed lettering is impossible to read in almost any light.  Think I'll
> look for a white or silver marker this weekend!
> 
>         73, Duane
> 
> 
> On Wed, 15 Jun 2005 22:48:50 EDT CATFISHTWO at aol.com writes:
> >  
> > I almost never buy radios, cars or any thing else for resale value.  
> > I  use 
> > my gear and if sold, it goes the way it is,  I don't abuse it but I 
> > do  use it. 
> > some of my gear has scratches form other rigs sitting on top, but 
> > it's  mine 
> > so I do as I choose. 
> >  
> >  The fellow was asking about a previous post from someone who used a 
> >  silver 
> > marker to make the raised letters on the orion to stand out for his 
> > old  eyes 
> > ( getting old is not for sissies),  and I think if done well its  
> > probably a 
> > no impact change.  A lot of the time I am known to give  stuff away, 
> > and I have 
> > yet to have a complaint of too many scratches on a  gift.
> >  
> > I understand that some folks like to buy excellent old rigs and keep 
> > them  as 
> > a piece of history, but I am one who uses his stuff.  I find buying 
> > and  
> > selling gear as much fun as using it and have got a fairly decent 
> > and very  usable 
> > station ( with a little help from my friends),  a couple of hundred  
> > dx 
> > entities on the log and a nice computer controlled multi -multi 
> > station  going 
> > together.
> >  
> > I guess that is what is great about this hobby, there is more than a 
> > few  
> > ways to do it.
> >  
> > Your milage may vary!!
> >  
> > tom N6AJR
> >  
> >  
> > In a message dated 6/15/2005 7:32:22 P.M. Pacific Standard Time,  
> > martin.ewing at gmail.com writes:
> > 
> > Voids  the warranty and ruins the resale value, of course.
> > 
> > ;-)  
> > 
> > Martin
> > 
> > On 6/15/05, CATFISHTWO at aol.com  <CATFISHTWO at aol.com> wrote:
> > > I remember he said to dab it on the  raised part of the letters,  
> > and  do it
> > > before having the  evenings libation..
> > 
> > 
> >  
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> 
> --------------------------------------
> Duane Calvin, AC5AA
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