{"id":1126,"date":"2009-07-30T08:12:10","date_gmt":"2009-07-30T13:12:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ramblindan.org\/?p=1126"},"modified":"2009-07-31T19:21:11","modified_gmt":"2009-08-01T00:21:11","slug":"a-bit-more-gloom","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ramblindan.org\/?p=1126","title":{"rendered":"A Bit More Gloom, but Clearing&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I just got the word back on my once wonderful <a href=\"http:\/\/radio.tentec.com\/archive\/transceivers\/564\" target=\"_blank\">Ten-Tec Omni VI <\/a>amateur radio transceiver. It is a total un-repairable loss. &lt;sniff&gt; It was a wonderful radio for fifteen years. It was totally first class back then and still very much state of the art today, but not now, just fried silicon.<\/p>\n<p>Ten-Tec does make the next version in the series called the <a href=\"http:\/\/radio.tentec.com\/amateur\/transceivers\/588\" target=\"_blank\">Omni VII<\/a>. That design is about five years old. It loses some feature of the VI but gains a fancy front video panel and a few new features. The top of the line Ten-Tec is now called the Orion II and is about $1.5K pricier. That puts it at the same dollar value as the original Omni VI from 15 years ago and is actually more the Omni VI plus equal.<\/p>\n<p>Even to me that sounds like a hard sell since there is still a Ten-Tec radio series called the Omni. The Omni VII is a great radio so it looks like it will be my replacement. My old Omni had all the extra\u2019s with added filters and a factory upgrade to the Omni VI plus version. So now I need Ten-Tec to give me a quote on the full replacement with the Omni VII.<\/p>\n<p>In communication ability there will be little to no difference between what I had and what will be the replacement. I\u2019d rather I didn\u2019t have to replace it at all.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I just got the word back on my once wonderful Ten-Tec Omni VI amateur radio transceiver. It is a total un-repairable loss. &lt;sniff&gt; It was a wonderful radio for fifteen years. It was totally first class back then and still very much state of the art today, but not now, just fried silicon. Ten-Tec does make the next version in the series called the Omni VII. That design is about five years old. It loses&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[41],"tags":[43,16,42],"class_list":["post-1126","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-amateur-radio","tag-amateur","tag-hobby","tag-radio"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ramblindan.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1126","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ramblindan.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ramblindan.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ramblindan.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ramblindan.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1126"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ramblindan.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1126\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ramblindan.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1126"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ramblindan.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1126"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ramblindan.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1126"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}