Well, there's an interesting article in the latest QEX that's going to have me up the 40 foot extension ladder again. Along with more measuring gear than I ordinarily tote to work on an amp. Accordin
Yes, the Orion is by far the best reciever to have made it through the doors of my shack. Most of the initial aggravatons have been taken care of - NOW, if they could program the F1 button on the pod
I have had good luck with some Dri-Slide, a molybdymium based lube whose carrier evaporates leaving just the moly lube. It should still be available at your local gun dealers. I suspect lard should b
Yes, Dri Slide is rather long wearing, both on machinery and unprotected fingers. I shake the can and then squirt some on a long Q-Tip for roller inductors and such. For places where I might get some
Hi Dave: I try to work as much Dri-Slide as possible into the bearings and put a very little on the coil itself. My 253's quieted down with a bearing lube and I don't trust a conducting lubricant aro
As Yuri says, ONE Orion has shown up in the E-ham classifieds. Radios are like cars and clothes. One size does not fit all. A guy I know always wanted a Ferrari. He sold his business for some absurd
Weeellll - I have a pretty good antenna for 20 and up, and the Orion makes that antenna system much more effective than it has been with other rigs. And yes, I have had other TOL rigs here, some for
Chuckle! I don't know anyone who has a rotatable Sterba, but according to one story I heard, back in the 1920's an official with the Burlington had a crew build a perfectly circular 2,000 foot diamet
That brought a laugh: I have been on the water wagon since Christmas of 1955. And when I did hist 'em I only drank one bottle of burbon at a time. A man could make a pig of himself if he drinks too m
Looking at the maintainence records on my VI+ and two option 3's: I forgot to rotate one of my Option 3's to an operating position and left it off for nearly a year. The memories were still good but
Well, I thought the Fermi installation was associated with Argonne, across the river from Lemont, which was a pretty far suburb of Chicago the last time I was there. Used to visit my dad's friend Al
The 701 certainly works with the Omni VI+, and presumably with the Orion. It's my understanding the 706 is essentially a 705 without a provision for the 9V battery that's needed when you use a 705 on
Hi Buck; Knowing the level of responsiveness from the factory, I'm sure they are working on the sidetone fuzzies and any other problems that have been brought to their attention. I do notice a bit of
HI Don: Depending on what humor I'm in at a given time, I use one of several Ten Tec 705's - a couple with an accessory jack for my Heil's; a Turner 252, an EV 620, a Shure studio mike, or one of a c
Hmmm - so far my expenditures to "finish" my Orion amount to exactly Zero. Unless I have forgotten a rig, that's several hundred dollars less than any of the many other rigs that have been resident h
Chuckle: No, the house will be trading money with the house I am moving out of, I already own the land, and the antenna farm would be a desirable adjunct to any rig. So the only expense will be the a
The Orion slow to catch on? Not if my usually accurate memory is correct. The FT1000D was introduced just before I got back into the hobby, when Kenwood's 940 was pretty much top dog with Icom a dist
I dunno about Max - but Schatze, Joe, and the Jazzy Lady don't mind the dog appelation. They think they are four legged people. And Justin Other Critter, the current cat, thinks they are pests. 73 Pe
While some of the references I have seen have been more than slightly obscure, at one time "owning a Volvo" was a sign of a "Young Upwardly mobile Professional Person," or YUPPIE. Driving a Volvo mea