Re: [TenTec] Good faith & John Swisher KE4CCI (long)

["James Duffer" <dufferjames@hotmail.com>]

Never been there, thought it was in France or the French Sector.  I was 
stationed in Bavaria very near the Austrian border.  Beautiful in both 
summer and winter.
what a sad tale about the destruction of the KWM2As, sometimes there is no 
logic to the reasoning.  We did have a KWM2A in the MARS station.
Remember that chapter or section the Technical Manual (TM) titled 
"Destruction of Equipment" or something similar.  Thankfully I never had to 
refer to that section!
Thanks for the clarification of the location of the U.S. Army Depot.

73, Jim, wd4air

> From: "NJ0IP" <Rick@DJ0IP.de>
> Reply-To: Discussion of Ten-Tec Equipment <tentec@contesting.com>
> To: "'Discussion of Ten-Tec Equipment'" <tentec@contesting.com>
> Subject: Re: [TenTec] Good faith & John Swisher KE4CCI (long)
> Date: Wed, 16 Feb 2005 13:09:23 -0800
>
> The only thing wrong with your story is that "Pirmasens" is in Germany, not
> in France - although before France returned the Saarland to Germany back in
> 1959 (or so), Pirmasens was very near the French border.  Now it's well
> within Germany.
>
> I know that Depot well.  I once visited it (about 1973) and watched them
> destroy about 100 KWM-2A's (with a blow-torch and a sledge hammer) because
> they had previously belonged to the Army Security Agency and could still
> contain top secrets !!!
>
> 73
> Rick
>
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
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> On Behalf Of James Duffer
> Sent: Wednesday, February 16, 2005 6:09 AM
> To: tentec@contesting.com
> Subject: Re: [TenTec] Good faith & John Swisher KE4CCI (long)
>
> snip.
> Well at ga hamfest 3 months later traded for plus cash for a kenwood
> ts850sat. It was gaurenteeeed to be top notch. Just been to kenwood for
> realinement. You know the deal. 2 Days later at home it quit.
> snip.
>
> Would it made a difference if it had quit two weeks, or two months later?
> If you would of tested it at the fest, would that made a difference?
>
> This reminds me of an incident occuring in Germany.  A Major Birch tried to
> make me guarentee that an AN/GRC-46 would work when we went to Ogau (I was
> stationed in Lenggries).  He was specifically concerned about the
> transmitter T-195.  I explained that I could test it at Lenggries and only
> state that it was working.  I couldn't guarentted that it would work 
> further
> down the road.  This wasn't good enough, so he ordered a new (or rebuilt)
> T-195 from the Pirmaseans Depot in France.  You guessed it, it started
> blowing smoke out of the exhaust blower vents when turned on.
>
> Wold you guarentee a light bulb to work two days later?  More than likely 
> it
> would, but there is also a chance it won't.  Electronics systems are 
> subject
> to failures of all sorts.  The best way to deal with it is to go for
> redundency.
>
> m2cw
>
> 73, wd4air
>
>
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