Horrible Heathkit Green?????
STOP IT STEVE!!!!
:-)
de Benton wb5twc
----- Original Message -----
From: "Steve Ellington" <N4LQ@iglou.com>
To: <Wa4aos@aol.com>; "Jim Miller" <k4sqr@juno.com>
Cc: <tentec@contesting.com>
Sent: Saturday, August 03, 2002 8:22 AM
Subject: Re: [TenTec] Re: Titan III Color
> I'm setting here looking at my Kenwood and TenTec equipment wondering what
> all the fuss is about color. The Kenwood is two shades of gray. The Delta
is
> a olive gray. The Omni C is black and chrome and my Hercules II is light
> gray with some black buttons. The IC-706 is black all over and my Heath
> DX-20 is gray. The HQ-150 is 2 tone gray, Triton IV is black with silver
and
> the Knight T60 is gray.
> My older TT stuff is cream colored with wood grain contact paper.
> My PC and monitor are white but I wish they were black. At our company,
IBM
> has started shipping black PCs and monitors. They look so much better in a
> business enviroment than the white PCs.
> I think TenTec's change of color is symbolic of them moving into a new
> generation of digital technology. To have kept the same color scheme may
> have been more negative to potential buyers.
> So thanks for not making it blue to match my Tek scopes or that horrible
> Heathkit green. BMW black with chrome wheels is just fine.
> Steve
> N4LQ
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Jim Miller" <k4sqr@juno.com>
> To: <Wa4aos@aol.com>
> Cc: <tentec@contesting.com>
> Sent: Saturday, August 03, 2002 2:01 PM
> Subject: Re: [TenTec] Re: Titan III Color
>
>
> > Glen & Readers;
> >
> > At the March 2002 Charlotte Hamfest, with the RX-340 receiver to its
> > right, the Orion simply looked ugly and I stated this to Scott Robbins.
> > He later inferred ALL Amateur lines will go to black soon. He seemed to
> > take the comments personally, stating "Here comes trouble" when I
> > returned to look at it again Sunday morning. And no, he was not smiling
.
> > So that is a big strike if this is Ten-Tec's "new road" to ignore
> > current/past customers opinions.
> > Too bad Ten-Tec is giving up the Omni gray color so popular these past
15
> > + - years to copy "JA Black".
> > I believe the Centurion is now all black.
> > As I told Scott, I will not buy a new Orion, because I have to look at
my
> > purchase when operating.
> >
> > Regards,
> > Jim, K4SQR
> >
> > On Fri, 2 Aug 2002 14:41:29 EDT Wa4aos@aol.com writes:
> > > Hi,
> > >
> > > Sure would be nice if some of the Titan III's come in Corsair Gray
> > > to Match
> > > the Omni 6 and others. A black Orion look a like would be VERY ugly
> > > next to
> > > the Omni 6, Corsair II, Paragon and other rigs...Maybe a small
> > > production run
> > > in C.G. ????
> > >
> > > Glenn WA4AOS
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