Dave
I really enjoyed your comments and I think all of have had that same
experience. Why anyone would intentionally knock TT or any company that they
really have no experience with is beyond my comprehension.
73 Art WA8VSJ
----- Original Message -----
From: "Ron Notarius W3WN" <wn3vaw@verizon.net>
To: "Discussion of Ten-Tec Equipment" <tentec@contesting.com>
Sent: Monday, November 05, 2007 5:19 PM
Subject: Re: [TenTec] OMIN VII
> Some things just defy explanation, Dave.
>
> Back when Ten-Tec still had a dealer network and the Argosy & Argosy II
> were
> out, there was a fellow here in Pittsburgh who started a rumor that the
> Argosy's weren't actually made in Tennessee but made somewhere in Mexico.
> His "proof" was that no where on the case, allegedly, did it say "made in
> USA" (at the time, you legally had to label imported items -- but not
> domestically produced ones) and that some of the COMPONENTS were marked as
> made in Mexico...
>
> He freely admitted to me at the time that he never owned a piece of TT
> gear
> in his life and never would. But he was rabidly anti-Ten-Tec.
>
> I can remember monitoring the old 146.82 Churchill (Westinghouse R&D
> facility) repeater on the way in to work, and if someone ever dared
> mention
> TT, boy, was he all over them. Oh, further "proof" was that no one who
> worked in the store would ever get on the repeater and refute what he
> said -- of course, we couldn't under the rules at the time, especially
> while
> "on duty."
>
> Come to think of it, this was the same, er, low-life who called me on a
> repeater auto-patch one day to ask for support & assistance with a
> Cushcraft
> vertical he'd bought. (I knew how he was calling because the demo 2 meter
> rig's scanner had stopped on that repeater frequency). When I politely
> informed him that it was against FCC rules (at the time) to call up a
> retail
> store on an auto-patch and ask for our professional assistance, he tried
> to
> tear me a new, er, oriface on the air for the refusal. Don't recall
> seeing
> or hearing too much from him afterwards...
>
> Ahem. Anyway, the same attitude exists to this day. We have people
> posting
> negative "reviews" on eham on equipment that's been announced because they
> don't care for the specs, or because they "heard" about it from a friend,
> and all sorts of other shenannigans. Heck, we right now have an irate
> expatriate kvetching on a DX reflector because he didn't like the response
> he got about an amplifier problem... who conveniently forgets to mention
> that the amp originally had lightning-related damage, and that he's now in
> Asia, not the South East US...
>
> There's no explaining it.
>
> Some people are just Oldsmobile people, like Ralphie's Old Man. Some
> aren't. That's all there is too it!
>
> 73, ron w3wn
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: tentec-bounces@contesting.com
> [mailto:tentec-bounces@contesting.com]On Behalf Of Dave Heil
> Sent: Monday, November 05, 2007 1:34 PM
> To: Discussion of Ten-Tec Equipment
> Subject: Re: [TenTec] OMIN VII
>
> Heck, I'm still trying to figure out how a group is anti-Ten-Tec. I
> don't have a Kenwood rig but that doesn't mean I'm anti-Kenwood. It
> has been my experience that almost no one can tell what brand SSB rig
> you're using unless you tell 'em.
>
> Dave Heil K8MN
>
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