"KØHB" wrote:

"Bert Craig" wrote


Not to mention, support a product made in the USA.


Ya mean like an AMC Gremlin, or an MFJ (anything they make), or Budweiser
beer?

No, more like a Dodge Viper, a GE refrigerator or a Rolling Rock beer.

I'll do my part for the hillbilly economy and support Jack Daniels. You and
Dave can support TenTec.

I'm getting something which lasts and which produces no unpleasant after
effects. It also costs several magnitudes less than the '7800.

Dave K8MN (Don't feel obligated to use my callsign)

"Dave Heil" wrote in message
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"KØHB" wrote:

"Bert Craig" wrote


Not to mention, support a product made in the USA.


Ya mean like an AMC Gremlin, or an MFJ (anything they make), or
Budweiser
beer?

No, more like a Dodge Viper, a GE refrigerator or a Rolling Rock beer.

Well said, Dave. On a more personal AR level...more like an Elecraft K2/100,
a Palstar AT1500C transmatch, and...oops, I don't drink. hihi

I'll do my part for the hillbilly economy and support Jack Daniels. You
and
Dave can support TenTec.

I'm getting something which lasts and which produces no unpleasant after
effects. It also costs several magnitudes less than the '7800.

Here here.

Dave K8MN (Don't feel obligated to use my callsign)

73 de Bert
WA2SI

"Dave Heil" wrote


No, more like a Dodge Viper, a GE refrigerator or a Rolling Rock beer.


If you'd drink Rolling Rock beer, then you'd probably drive an AMC
Gremlin, wear a badge laden jumpsuit to a hamfest, and date Moms Mabley.

73, de Hans, K0HB

"KØHB" wrote:

"Dave Heil" wrote


No, more like a Dodge Viper, a GE refrigerator or a Rolling Rock beer.


If you'd drink Rolling Rock beer, then you'd probably drive an AMC
Gremlin, wear a badge laden jumpsuit to a hamfest, and date Moms Mabley.

C'mon, Hans. They don't make Gremlins any longer, I've never parachuted
into the Dayton fleamarket and Moms Mabley has been dead for years.

In honesty, I did buy a Chevy Vega back in '73 (much to my regret), have
worn a navy blue, velvet cap with scrambled eggs on the bill and my call
embroidered on the front (a gift from old salt K3FK) and I once went out
with a female jailer from Savannah who kept talking about cuffs,
shackles and body slams.

Those things aside, the Orion is built in the U.S. and is one fine
transceiver.

Dave K8MN

"Dave Heil" wrote

Those things aside, the Orion is built in the U.S. and is one fine
transceiver.

Yes it is, and yes it is. Did you see ON4UN's review in the current
NCJ? Very complimentary.

But Rolling Rock beer ranks about .001 on a scale of 1 to 10, where "4"
is "barely drinkable". (Yes, that means it needs to improve 1000-fold
be be a "1".)

73, de Hans, K0HB

"KØHB" wrote:

"Dave Heil" wrote

Those things aside, the Orion is built in the U.S. and is one fine
transceiver.

Yes it is, and yes it is. Did you see ON4UN's review in the current
NCJ? Very complimentary.

It showed on the TT reflector and I saw it there. I also find it quite
satisfying to wish that the transceiver would do something, to send
those wishes to TT and to have them incorporate them in a firmware
release.

But Rolling Rock beer ranks about .001 on a scale of 1 to 10, where "4"
is "barely drinkable". (Yes, that means it needs to improve 1000-fold
be be a "1".)

Actually, aside from a couple of Karjalainen brews in Helsinki in
October, my yearly beer intake is about four bottles. I mostly stick to
vodka or with Jack Daniels and branch water.

Dave K8MN

In article , Dave Heil
writes:


Actually, aside from a couple of Karjalainen brews in Helsinki in
October, my yearly beer intake is about four bottles. I mostly stick to
vodka or with Jack Daniels and branch water.

Dave K8MN


Dave:

OK, I give up -- what the Sam Hill is "branch water?" I heard it mentioned
a few times on the old TV program "Dallas," when J.R. Ewing used to order
a "bourbon and branch" at the Ahwl (Oil) Baron's Club. Is it water that
dripped off a tree branch during the rain, or did it come from a branch
tributary of some particular river, or what? Or is it just another way of
saying "Club Soda," as I suspect?

73 de Larry, K3LT

Larry Roll K3LT wrote:

In article , Dave Heil
writes:


Actually, aside from a couple of Karjalainen brews in Helsinki in
October, my yearly beer intake is about four bottles. I mostly stick to
vodka or with Jack Daniels and branch water.

Dave K8MN


Dave:

OK, I give up -- what the Sam Hill is "branch water?" I heard it mentioned
a few times on the old TV program "Dallas," when J.R. Ewing used to order
a "bourbon and branch" at the Ahwl (Oil) Baron's Club. Is it water that
dripped off a tree branch during the rain, or did it come from a branch
tributary of some particular river, or what? Or is it just another way of
saying "Club Soda," as I suspect?

Oh Lord no, Larry--nothing fizzy at all. A branch is a swift-running
little stream. There's a town downstate named Jumping Branch. It is
named for a nearby stream.

Dave K8MN

In article t, "KØHB"
writes:

No, more like a Dodge Viper, a GE refrigerator or a Rolling Rock beer.


If you'd drink Rolling Rock beer, then you'd probably drive an AMC
Gremlin, wear a badge laden jumpsuit to a hamfest, and date Moms Mabley.

73, de Hans, K0HB

Hansl:

I drink Corona, drive an '03 Toyota Corolla LE, wear a pair of Dockers and a
pullover shirt to hamfests (no badges except my ARRL OBS Call Sign Badge), date
a single Mom not named "Mabley," and will probably never own an ICOM IC-7800
for the simple fact that with the 10 kilobucks I could buy an IC-746, a tower,
a big antenna farm, and lots of other stuff, and still have a chunk of change
left over! If I ever win the Powerball Lottery, I still don't know if I'd
invest in a 7800, although there would be little reason not to under those
circumstances!

73 de Larry, K3LT