Rick,
You are right, and I was "hopefully" not mean spirited but I am capable
of being smart. If you are my age, you remember that the teachers would
remind us...."Don't you be so smart, young man." It took me a while,
but I finally realized that was not a complement.
John / WA1JG
On 9/1/2012 11:48 AM, Rick - DJ0IP / NJ0IP wrote:
Feel free to interpret it any way you please, John.
When I read a manual and see something which reads "CAUTION", I don't feel
like I'm being yelled at.
I think "here's something extra important to pay attention to."
The world has been doing this long before there was an Internet.
...and I'm not changing my way of writing, just because some people choose
to extend or even change the meaning of CAPITAL letters.
There are lots of words with 2 or more meanings so why not have two meanings
for certain ways of writing?
In each case people just have to engage their brain to figure out which
meaning was meant.
I assume most of us here are capable of that. ;-)
73
Rick, DJ0IP
-----Original Message-----
From: TenTec [mailto:tentec-bounces@contesting.com] On Behalf Of John
Sent: Saturday, September 01, 2012 4:50 PM
To: Discussion of Ten-Tec Equipment
Subject: Re: [TenTec] Ten-Tec market visibility
Rick,
Oh...I see...All CAPS is not yelling....It is SPEAKING LOUDLY IS FOR THOSE
OF US WITH A HEARING DEFICIT SO WE ALL CAN CONTINUE THE CONVERSATION! THANK
YOU FOR CLARIFYING IT.
John / WA1JG
On 9/1/2012 10:26 AM, Rick - DJ0IP / NJ0IP wrote:
NOT ALL OF US VIEW THE USE OF CAPITAL LETTERS AS YELLING!
That is more of a chat/Text/Twitter thing.
WE HAVE USED CAPITAL LETTERS FOR EMPHASIS FOR AS MANY YEARS AS I CAN
REMEMBER.
(and that's a very long time - I have had an email account since 1983).
I still use capital letters for emphasis, especially here where we
can't use BOLD TEXT to emphasize text.
73
Rick, DJ0IP
-----Original Message-----
From: tentec-bounces@contesting.com
[mailto:tentec-bounces@contesting.com]
On Behalf Of chacuff
Sent: Tuesday, August 28, 2012 5:12 AM
To: Discussion of Ten-Tec Equipment
Subject: Re: [TenTec] Ten-Tec market visibility
I agree..but you didn't have to yell....
Cecil
----- Original Message -----
From: "Rodney" <w3krq@dejazzd.com>
To: "Discussion of Ten-Tec Equipment" <tentec@contesting.com>
Sent: Monday, August 27, 2012 5:26 PM
Subject: Re: [TenTec] Ten-Tec market visibility
Yes, AT TEN TEC YOU CAN GET A RADIO FOR 30 DAYS TO CHECK OUT, TRY
THIS WITH OTHER RADIO OUTLET'S WHAT IS THE GOOD AT LOOKING AT THEM ON
A TABLE.
-----Original Message-----
From: Mike Hyder -N4NT-
Sent: Monday, August 27, 2012 5:07 PM
To: Discussion of Ten-Tec Equipment
Subject: Re: [TenTec] Ten-Tec market visibility
One way the name Ten-Tec gets spread around is by positive
word-of-mouth from fans of the brand and the products.
73, Mike N4NT
----- Original Message -----
From: "Douglas" <sparks06524@yahoo.com>
To: <tentec@contesting.com>
Sent: Monday, August 27, 2012 15:46
Subject: [TenTec] Ten-Tec market visibility
I just got back from the New England ARRL convention at Boxboro, Mass.
Ten-Tec was conspicuously absent. With no dealers selling their
products, minimal QST advertising and little attendance at larger
Hamfests, how does Ten-Tec expect to continue to be a factor in the
Amateur Equipment marketplace?
Their QST ads have shrunk from being a full page ad near the
beginning of the magazine to a quarter page ad (at best) buried near
the end of the magazine.
Meanwhile, Elecraft and Flex Radio were conducting forums and had
large displays. An Elecraft KX3 and a Flexradio 1500 were among the
prizes given away. Of course, the factory displays from YaeComWood
were large and conspicuous.
The DX dinner and the DXpedition presentation increased a lot of
talk about the Elecraft K3's used in the expedition. If their was
talk at all about Ten-Tec and its products it was in the past tense
with words like "Elecraft is eating them for lunch".
Even if Ten-Tec is hurting financially (I don't know that as a fact
but wonder why they have cut back their advertising), they had
better up their marketing and visibility or they won't be long for
the Amateur Radio marketplace.
By the way, this convention had its best year in over a decade with
an attendance that exceeded 2,000. With the number of ham license
holders near an all time high of over 700,000, the rumors of the
death of our hobby are greatly exaggerated.
73,
Doug/WA1TUT
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