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Re: [Amps] Good engineering

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Subject: Re: [Amps] Good engineering
From: "Bill, W6WRT" <dezrat1242@yahoo.com>
Reply-to: dezrat1242@yahoo.com
Date: Wed, 24 Mar 2010 06:40:51 -0700
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ORIGINAL MESSAGE:

On Wed, 24 Mar 2010 09:30:57 -0500, "Edward Swynar"
<gswynar@durham.net> wrote:

>
>When I started, it seemed the mantra in the matter of designing &
>engineering was one of "...just in case"...by the end of my tenure there,
>though, it had slipped down to "...just enough". I distinctly recall my
>associates at the start of my career criticizing import models for that very
>latter feature...in the end, we ourselves embraced it for the sake of
>economy...
>
>...And we all know only too well what position that sort of thinking
>eventually placed the Big 3 into (well, one of them, anyway).

REPLY:

Sounds like the engineer who decided something was "just enough" was
wrong. Making good decisions like that separates the good engineers
from the not so good. 

73, Bill W6WRT
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