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[TenTec] The Orion Odyssey and Watch

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Subject: [TenTec] The Orion Odyssey and Watch
From: wb4qda@yahoo.com (John Sheeley)
Date: Fri May 16 22:18:03 2003
Now you are going to have a lot of fun. I hope to work
you Qrion to Orion . 
 After having mine 5 weeks .I sure am liking it more
and more everyday . 

73 de WB4QDA John

--- Jim Reid <jimr.reid@verizon.net> wrote:
> It is here!! 
> 
> Fed Ex truck drove up at 0056Z (2:56pm HST).
> 
> Now unpacked and ready for what comes next,  hi. 
> The
> very fine shipping box was in great shape;  same for
> the contents.
> 
> 
> > Captain Midnigh't's secret decoder ring! Yep, had
> one of those. 
> 
> Me to.
> 
> My bigger disappointment was my Jack Armstrong
> "magic
> answer box"; a  small,  red box.  You pressed your
> thumb
> firmly against the side after asking a question; a
> needle
> deflected a bit to some sort of truth scale or some
> such.
> But it really never told me any great truths of
> life!
> 
> > At least, we don't have to send our money in weeks
> or 
> > months in advance and  then wait for our toys to
> come 
> > Railway Express.
> 
> That's the way the EF Johnson Co. shipped my Viking
> II kit
> many decades ago.  And yes,  I had to bicycle down
> to
> the So. Pacific RR station at the Railway Express
> office
> every afternoon after the So. Pacific Daylight
> steamed
> through town.  The day the huge,  heavy box at last
> came,  I had to get my Mom to drive to the station
> to
> pick the thing up,  hi.  My dad had bought the kit
> as
> a birthday gift for me (after much begging on my
> part).
> 
> Those were truly the days..........
> 
> 73,  Jim  KH7M
> 
> 
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