[TenTec] New Radio - Day Ten

[n4dsp]

I rest my case.

john-n4dsp


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Mary Ann Higgins" <mahiggins at gmail.com>
To: "Discussion of Ten-Tec Equipment" <tentec at contesting.com>
Sent: Sunday, November 26, 2006 6:18 PM
Subject: Re: [TenTec] New Radio - Day Ten


> Hi j sorry u are such a stupid MORON that INTELLECT  & HUMOR offends u. 
> Pse
> buy a jap rig &
> SELL ur ORION- We who have more than a double DIGIT IQ would like to say 
> bye
> bye !!!!!!
>
> Don't let the door hit u in the back on ur way OUT !!!!
>
> RAY
>
> On 11/26/06, n4dsp <n4dsp at triad.rr.com> wrote:
>>
>> 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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> -- 
> The joy is in the journey...
> Mary Ann Higgins
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