[TenTec] New Radio - Day Ten

[Larry Menzel]

Curmudgeon.

I dig it.

Larry, N0XB
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From: "n4dsp" <n4dsp at triad.rr.com>
To: "Discussion of Ten-Tec Equipment" <tentec at contesting.com>
Sent: Sunday, November 26, 2006 12:08 PM
Subject: Re: [TenTec] New Radio - Day Ten


> What is this all about? Do you like your Orion II?
> Are you trying to be some kind of a poet?
> Baelzebub? St.Elmos Fire? Spittle from the
> corner of his mouth? Peterbuilt plowing through
> a fog bank? The smell of ozone?
>
> Spare us.
>
> john-n4dsp
>
>
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "Dennis OConnor" <ad4hk2004 at yahoo.com>
> To: <tentec at contesting.com>
> Sent: Sunday, November 26, 2006 11:55 AM
> Subject: [TenTec] New Radio - Day Ten
>
>
>> Well, I'm still up after 60 hours with only 3 hours sleep during the day
>> Sunday...  I getting too old for this stuff, jeez...  Right now I don' t
>> care if I ever hear another static crash - but I'll probably put in a
>> couple hours this evening to close the contest out...  Right now I have a
>> personal best in CQWW CW as SO SB LP 80, way beyond any score in past
>> years...  The O2 is a huge part of that...
>>
>> Anyway, the new radio was put through the paces in CQWW ...  In spite of
>> my best efforts as a sleep deprived, thick fingered, staggering, glass
>> eyed zombie, I was not able to crash it - not even once...
>> "A multiplier Egor, I must have a multiplier!"
>> Igor  hunched over, dragging his left leg, painfully moves across the
>> stone floor and sits down on the chair of horrror, the right hand 
>> trembles
>> over the chrome plated instrument of torture, a thin trickle of spittle
>> from the corner of his mouth... "Yes Master, I will find one."
>> His eyes roll back... He mashes the red knob on the end of the chromium
>> bar and crackling St. Elmos Fire  billows between his fingers, rises up
>> his arm, jumps from his neck to the wires overhead, writhing and pulsing
>> as it spirals upwards and sqeezes out the tiny window at the top of the
>> dark chamber, ending with a blinding flash...  The smell of ozone like
>> that from the pits of Baelzebub penetrates the room...  The shout for
>> another multiplier shakes the very heavens and makes the aether recoil...
>> Igor leans forward, his twisted ear pressed to the horn of the coherer
>> Alas, only static rebounds from the speaker... No, wait!  There, right
>> there... Is that one... Igor leans forward more.. A tiny sound, buried in
>> static, parts of it cut off and missing... It repeats... Igor's huge
>> fingers fumbles across the panel, pushes a button here, turns a knob
>> there...  The sound fades away, almost gone, then after a short pause
>> comes back again, stronger this time, clearer this time... YES! It is
>> another multiplier...
>> Igor triumphantly raises his huge arm overhead and with a convulsive
>> descent smashes away at the red knob, a crescendo of sound rises to the
>> heavens, blowing the static aside like a Peterbuilt plowing through a fog
>> bank, making the crystal globe of the very universe ring in time with the
>> pulsing blows from Igor's huge hand <actually someone elses hand, but
>> that's another story>
>>
>> OK, long story short - This is one righteous radio...
>>
>> denny / k8do
>>
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