[TenTec] Speaking of Headphones (Orion)

[Stuart Rohre]

Oh, I missed something in the thread, due to my SOP in using receivers.  Way 
back when I was a young ham, some Elmer taught me to first always turn down 
the volume when going from phones to speaker, and to have the volume down, 
(as I stated) when you first plug in your phones.  I guess the first was to 
keep from blasting neighboring hams at Field Day or something.

I have always had these little SOPs I picked up along the way.  I always 
leave the rotary switched VOMs set to AC volts and the highest range.

That is because at my first Field Day, someone borrowed a friend's meter, 
and left it on ohms when he finished.  Then he picked it up again to check 
the generator voltage, and did not look at the knob setting!  You can guess 
the rest, lots of smoke when the 115 VAC hit the fine wire of the resistors 
in that old pre war meter.  We did get it fixed for the owner, and all was 
well.  (A big junk box helps at times like that.)

However, I have never blown a meter my self, and take pride in not bending 
pointers.

Now the first time I used a rig with an iron vane Emico meter, I admit I was 
about to faint when it banged the peg, and it jumped all around as you 
keyed.
Finally got used to those
73,
Stuart
K5KVH