[TenTec] My Omni 6 appears to be fixed

[Frank Holladay]

Sounds like someone has read too much of Robert Service's poetry!!
73,
Frank, K4VMO

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "John Graves" <jh.graves at verizon.net>
To: "Discussion of Ten-Tec Equipment" <tentec at contesting.com>
Sent: Thursday, October 08, 2009 7:28 AM
Subject: Re: [TenTec] My Omni 6 appears to be fixed


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,
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> When men quell their chirps and their clicks,
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> But the strangest it seems, so near to our dreams
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> 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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> 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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> 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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> 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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> 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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> 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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> 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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> 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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> There be strange smoking toil, by the night’s waning oil
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> And the strangest by far to these ears
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> Was the night that Joe fought with what Ten-Tec had wrought
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> 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
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> KØRO
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