[TenTec] Good operating (was Ten-Tec Rig Comparisons)

[Richards]

I will get it.   I have one by AC6V that is pretty good, also.  There 
are not many manuals like that -- you gotta pick it up watching and 
listening.

I recall my first encounter with a WAS net, like Century Club or OMISS. 
   They called for check-ins... and I checked in following the lead of 
the guy before me.   THEN, I scrambled all over the computer, looking 
for a web site, and frantically reading it, to see what the  ^%$ #  I 
was supposed to do and say when it came my turn to talk - and I was like 
only 13 on the list.   I listened to the other operators, and read the 
web site info, and got it figured out before it was my turn to make a 
call.   Whew... nothing like the sink-or-swim method.

The OMISS guys were swell on my first time with their net.  They knew I 
was super green, and they all called me, and I picked up maybe 15 or 16 
states on the first night.   Man was I busy... trying to remember what 
to say, write down the call info, and be ready for the odd caller that 
actually asked me for more than a reception report.  I am sure they 
remembered their first time out.

=============   Richards - K8JHR  ==============


On 4/30/2010 5:38 PM, Bill Rowlett wrote:
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> Everybody,  who operates HF MUST READ THE COMPLETE DX'ER
by Bob Locher, W9KNI.


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