I SURE UNDERSTAND THIS - i keep coming back to my Onmi C and accessories
- it and the Triton 544 are the most fun
Dave K8BBM
Clark Savage Turner wrote:
>
> OK. I've been planning to just buy the Orion whenever it comes out,
> even if the knob is the wrong color. I just want to work one for a
> while.
>
> I love my OMNI-VI.
>
> But that OMNI-C came by a few weeks ago, pretty cheap, I snapped it up
> just to play with it. My usual routine is to buy a fairly clean radio,
> get it into my shack, clean it up to make it look really nice, do the
> PTO till its just right, align it, play more, then when I think it is
> just right for me, I come up short for the monthly bills or something
> and I sell it off.
>
> This OMNI-C is different. The face has smudges and some numbers are
> rubbed off. The plastic sheet on the case is coming off at the
> corners. Other stuff is not quite right about its appearance. The PTO
> really needs TLC, and the external VFO needs the same, plus a dialcord.
> Stuff like that. No big deal, really.
>
> But then I just plain operated the thing. Got on SSB. Got on CW. Got
> on CW again. It was fun. I did it yet again. I like this radio.
> <Steve Ellington filter ON> I now find myself using the OMNI-C to the
> exclusion of my OMNI VI and even my K2. It is just fun to operate, and
> under normal circumstances it works so well and sounds so "good" that I
> have no desire for the other rigs. I see that I cannot possible fix
> this radio up, can't clean the faceplate or try to redo the numbers.
> I'm not sure I should rebuild the PTO either, it might become too much
> of a "project". I just like the "quiet" receiver, I like the
> filtering, I like the QSK. I even lucked out that the PTO in the
> external VFO is really stable. I mean really stable. Never saw one
> that good. I am afraid to touch it. So the dialcord sags and the
> pointer drops out of the window. What do I care? I have had more QSO's
> in the last week than in the last year. Here I am, wanting the RX-350 /
> Jupiter combo, I want to buy the Orion, and the OMNI-C stole my heart.
> <Steve Ellington filter OFF>
>
> My wife thinks this is great. She thinks I might save some money this
> way. If I can just stop collecting SWR and wattmeters I should be able
> to buy a house someday.
>
> Clark
> WA3JPG
>
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