Hi Scott,
All I can say to ur reply is "Amen!"
----- Original Message -----
From: "Ten-Tec Inc. Amateur Radio Sales" <sales@tentec.com>
To: <tentec@contesting.com>
Sent: Thursday, February 12, 2004 9:20 AM
Subject: Re: [TenTec] Hanging Black Crepe
> At 08:39 PM 2/11/04 -0500, you wrote:
>
> >Apparently my "black crepe" reference was read by some to mean a funeral
> >is looming for Ten-Tec. What I said about the future of T-T is that it's
> >engaged in "somewhat of a gamble" with its present product lineup. That
is
> >irrefutable.
>
> Manufacturing and selling products of any kind is a gamble. The big
gamble
> we took was leaving a year-long gap in our product line between the
> Omni-VI Plus discontinuance and the release of the Orion. There was
> no guarantee the Orion was going to be the huge hit that it has been -
> all that engineering time that went into it didn't go into other products
> that we could have offered. If the Orion hadn't been a big seller, then
> that time is lost, gone, non-recoverable at any price.
>
> Manufacturing is a miracle every day - I find it amazing anything gets
> built by anyone, it's such a complicated process.
>
> Scott Robbins
> W4PA
>
>
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