In my opinion, the only unbiased and revealing product reviews came from the
ARRL's Rus Healy and Dave Newkirk during the early to
mid '90s.....neither of which are employed by the League today.
-Paul, W9AC
----- Original Message -----
From: "Billy Cox" <aa4nu@ix.netcom.com>
To: "Paul DeWitte K9OT" <k9ot@mhtc.net>; <tentec@contesting.com>
Sent: Wednesday, April 10, 2002 6:14 PM
Subject: Re: [TenTec] ARRL reviews
> I agree ... which makes me ponder "IF" the Orion will get a fair review ...
>
> FACT: The ARRL Review on the VL-1000 'forgot' to mention that
> the final PA transistors ... are no longer being made ...
>
> FACT: Despite horrible keying "pictures" ... no negative remarks
> in the text mention the details as to this being a negative 'feature'.
>
> It's almost like "Hey, we have to write the text this way, but PLEASE
> be sure and LOOK at the pictures/numbers to see the REAL story".
>
> FACT: The ARRL is "our" national organization, not a for-profit like
> CQ, etc, etc ... if we can not trust THEIR data ... then whose can we?
>
> Why can they not offer accurate, honest evaluations of equipment ...
>
> 73 Billy AA4NU
>
> >I think you guys have lost sight of who pays the big bills at ARRL
> >advertizing. Now how would you write your report?
> >would you offend a big spender or a little one, regardless of how the lab
> >tests turn out? Any way ARRL has lost total sight of their original
> >objective and have no creditability with me. Personal opinion only 73 Paul
> >K9OT
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