Hmmmmm...Maybe I should keep the 2 2B's and sell the Jupiter....then
again maybe not. Truth is, I find recently that I am spending as much
time operating with the Argosy set at 5 W. Good audio, pretty good
receiver. But the 2B and it's spare sister, were my main receiver for a
long time. Q-multiplier still works too. The Eagle sounds like a nice
rig for a operator like me....I chat on SB and play on CW.. The only I
time really need or want the Jupiter is for the digital modes. I haven't
really craved a rig since I had the Jupiter. Gee...it's nice to be a
TT ham.
John -- WA1JG
WA1JG@nsradio.org
On 1/19/2011 11:11 PM, Hulett, Russell wrote:
"Am I willing to pay for a throw away plastic rig in order to get all kinds of cool
extras to play with..."
Since I own an Omni VII, my answer is evidently "yes", though didn't buy it to
get cool extras but for the receiver, which I still think is pretty good, noise floor
always impresses me. Also wanted to own at least one new rig built by professionals (
not me ), with a warranty, while recognizing that it's operational life was probably
closer to a PC than anything else. That's how everything is these days, it's a
throw-away world and the time from production to landfill keeps getting shorter.
OTOH, also own a Drake 4 line and 2B, several CW ransmitters from the 50s, and Ten-Tec 509, 540,
544, and 546. The old stuff is fine, but working on stuff all the time gets kinda old. Especially
the old tube gear has resistors changing value, capacitors becoming leaky, and the available
"NOS" tubes probably someone else's castoffs. It's tempting to have a "parts"
rig because some of the components ( like switch decks ) are made from unobtanium. Sometimes the
shack seems to more resemble a junk yard than anything else.
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