[TenTec] My Omni 6 appears to be fixed

[Art Trampler]

What hath Joe wrought?

--- On Thu, 10/8/09, K8mp at aol.com <K8mp at aol.com> wrote:


From: K8mp at aol.com <K8mp at aol.com>
Subject: Re: [TenTec] My Omni 6 appears to be fixed
To: tentec at contesting.com
Date: Thursday, October 8, 2009, 9:02 AM


Wow,  what have I started ???



In a message dated 10/8/2009 8:29:09 A.M. Eastern Daylight Time,  
jh.graves at verizon.net writes:

Art,

Very nice....So we again explore the depths of our skill in  praise of 
TenTec.   Must be listening to all that  CW!

John Graves
WA1JG
jh.graves at verizon.net

Art Trampler  wrote:
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> 
> The Fixation of Five  Sixty-Three
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>  
> 
> There be strange smoking  toil, by the night’s waning oil,
> 
> When men quell their chirps  and their clicks,
> 
> But the strangest it seems, so near to our  dreams
> 
> Was the night near the snake of the Williams  Lake
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> When Joe repaired his old Omni Six.
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>  
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> Now Joe was a man who was known as a  ham,
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> Who would dit and dah with the best
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> But  his dear Omni Six, in need of a fix
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> Had a stuck PLL borne on  vapors of hell
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> That gave our dear OM no rest.
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>  
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> So Joe turned to the reflector, a knowledge  collector
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> Where the oracle was known to lurk
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>  And was given good fodder to search for some solder
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> That was  cold in the joint-now you see my point
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> That had caused this  unsettling quirk.
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>  
> 
> With iron in hand,  smoke rings rose in a band
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> Round his head like ethereal  wraith
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> And o’er the circuits he went with a hard-focused  bent
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> To make tin and lead flow like spilt blood in the  snow
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> Yet still t’was an act of his faith.
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>  
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> For circuits that die are ne’er hard to come  by
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> Yet to resurrect them requires the knack,
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>  That is found less these days, lost in mists and in haze
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> To  fix what is broken, a repair more than token
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> In the quiet of  Joe’s radio shack.
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>  
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> Yet when he was  done was he sure he had won,
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> This battle with solder joints  cold?
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> It would seem that he was, or that was the buzz
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> Which passed round the net (did you place a bet?)
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> At  least that’s how this tale has been told.
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>  
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> When at last came the hour when he restored power
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>  Cold display pierced the shack’s whelming night
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> He placed his  hand to the dial, then turning it while
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> The numbers did  change—said I before it was strange
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> QRG dancing now in his  sight.
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>  
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> Thus a fine fix did Joe bring  to his Six,
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> And it plays now as in its youth
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>  Each circuit now works, no duty it shirks
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> All joints are now  well, yet still cold as hell
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> Hear all you men, ‘tis the  truth.
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>  
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> So when next you hear Joe’s  signal come near
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> I ask you friend, bear this yarn in  mind
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> That our Joe was not slow
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> To repair  with all care
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> A Six needing a Fix from its bind.
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>  
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> There be strange smoking toil, by the night’s  waning oil
> 
> And the strangest by far to these ears
>  
> Was the night that Joe fought with what Ten-Tec had wrought
>  
> Coiled near to the snake of that old Williams Lake
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>  And it may be the strangest for years.
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>  
>  
> Art 
> 
> KØRO
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>  
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