Dale,
ship that inaccurate piece of junk to the address below. I can use that
lousy rig in my truck for mobile. The faulty display will not bother me
because I don't look at the display when mobile.
Ship to:
Ken Kreis, KA0W
1064 Hickory Ave.
Rudd, IA 50471
kia@netins.net
----- Original Message -----
From: "Dale L Martin" <kg5u@hal-pc.org>
To: "Ten-Tec Reflector" <Tentec@contesting.com>
Sent: Thursday, July 27, 2000 6:27 PM
Subject: [TenTec] For Sale: OMNI VI (upgraded to plus) -- I've had it!!
>
>
> After reading about someone's experiences with getting their radio back in
> calibration, I decided to check mine.
>
> My OMNI VI (upgraded to plus) is 18 Hz off frequency.
>
> Now, I've only had this radio since 1996 and the darn thing is already
that
> far off. This is just no good. What's happened to ham radio?
>
> I can't live with this 18 Hz off frequency business.
>
> How am I ever going to make another QSO?
>
> I'm tired of people telling me I'm 18 Hz off frequency. Geez.
>
> I can't work DX anymore because I can't find them from the packet spots
> given on the local PacketCluster.
>
> This 38 Hz off-frequency business is really a downer.
>
> I don't wear watches anymore because they lose or gain time after a while.
> The last one I had lost 3 seconds over about 9 months. Geez.
>
> I even got rid of an Athlon 900 MHz computer because the clock was off by
> 0.05 seconds over four months. Intolerable.
>
> I've finally put a piece of electrical tape over the lower right-hand
corner
> of the monitor screen just so I don't have to be reminded about how far
off
> the clock of my old 386 computer is (at last check, it was 0.0004 seconds
> off and that was based on the average of 57 different time checks to
account
> for multi-path propagation delays).
>
> What's happened to technology??????
>
>
> Dale L. Martin, KG5U
> kg5u@hal-pc.org
> http://www.hal-pc.org/~kg5u
>
> :-)
>
>
>
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