> To Will, Terry and the entire TowerTalk group:
>
> As President of Cushcraft, I try to avoid getting into all of the day
> to day details of things such as the content of our instruction
> manuals and web page.
Translation: Don't trust anything we put in writing.
> I do this for two reasons - one is to let
> people excel to the best of there abilities and the other is not to
> force my opinions on them.
Translation: I am not responsible for the quality of my company's products.
> I quite simply did not realize that we had
> formally announced a 2 element kit to this extent.
Translation: I don't check the facts before making public statements.
> I also don't want to start blaming Art for everything bad that had
> happened in the past because he did a lot of great things for
> Cushcraft.
Translation: I'm going to wait a full sentence before blaming Art for this.
> He was solely responsible for the manual and web page
> content
Translation: It was all Art's fault.
> , however, I still stand behind my statement in the last
> message:
Translation: I am never wrong.
> "These statements were made by Art without him or the rest of our
> organization being sure that a two element kit would work. I suspect
> Art had meant that a two element add on kit was our design
> goal rather than it being a promise."
Translation: We assume that our customers are telepathic.
> I also stand behind the following statements:
>
> "As far as the X940 being only a single element - our engineering
> effort was lead by Danny (T93M) who designed both the X7 and the X9.
> He tried to implement a two element solution but it was not
> significantly better than a single element and it degraded the X9
> performance on the other bands. We were not willing to make the
> performance sacrifice on the other bands and we were not willing to
> provide an inferior two element solution.
Translation: You should have modeled our design before placing your order.
> Had we implemented an inferior two element solution, most users in
the
> amateur community may have never noticed.
Translation: Our customers are ignorant and never discuss antennas with each
other.
> However, that's not the way Cushcraft operates - period."
Translation: Just because our competitors can make 2 elements work well
doesn't mean we can.
> Feedback is always welcome and appreciated. I will deal with any
> comments this community has to offer fairly and with honesty.
Translation: As exemplified by this letter.
> 73
> Steve Best
> President
> Cushcraft Corporation
I assume that the original message was a prank or a spoof, but just could
not resist annotating it. Someone out there has a great sense of humor...
Dave, AA6YQ
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