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-----
>From: tentec-bounces@contesting.com [mailto:tentec-bounces@contesting.com]
>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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