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Re: [TenTec] ARRLWeb: ARRL NEWS: Scott Robbins, W4PA, to Purchase Vibrop

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Subject: Re: [TenTec] ARRLWeb: ARRL NEWS: Scott Robbins, W4PA, to Purchase Vibroplex
From: "Philip C. Anderson" <xtraham58@hotmail.com>
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Date: Mon, 7 Dec 2009 21:02:07 -0500
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Good luck Scott, W3LI
 
> From: wn3vaw@verizon.net
> To: tentec@contesting.com
> Date: Mon, 7 Dec 2009 20:57:10 -0500
> Subject: Re: [TenTec] ARRLWeb: ARRL NEWS: Scott Robbins, W4PA, to Purchase 
> Vibroplex
> 
> Does there always have to be someone who finds a cloud in a silver lining?
> 
> With all due respect... the fact remains that Vibroplex was for sale...
> again. The company has changed hands -- and moved -- several times. It is
> quite unfortunate, but it is a fact of life.
> 
> The good news is that the company is not moving off shore.
> It is not being absorbed into another firm and remaining only as a brand
> name (Butternut).
> It is not folding up shop and going out of business altogether.
> And as much as we joke about it, it's not moving to and merging into a
> certain accessory company located in 5 land.
> 
> Yes, it is unfortunate that the Alabama location is losing the firm and the
> jobs. But on balance, if Scott hadn't bought the firm, in today's economy,
> the odds are that they would have gone anyway, one way or the other.
> 
> Now... can we focus on the positive, that a good man is taking over the firm
> and moving it into the future?
> 
> Now back to your regularly scheduled Ten-Tec kvetching.
> 
> 73
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: tentec-bounces@contesting.com [mailto:tentec-bounces@contesting.com]
> On Behalf Of jimimaxi2@comcast.net
> Sent: Monday, December 07, 2009 8:01 PM
> To: tentec@contesting.com
> Subject: Re: [TenTec] ARRLWeb: ARRL NEWS: Scott Robbins, W4PA, to Purchase
> Vibroplex
> 
> 
> 
> I hate to be a ball buster , not really. 
> 
> How many jobs will be lost  in Mobile, if any, no matter how much lead time 
> 
> and how big a severance package may have been offered to current Vibroflex
> employees. 
> 
> It is a huge hassle to move, if that has been offered. 
> 
> A huger hassle to find a new manufacturing job. 
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
> Jim C 
> 
> KC2ROF 
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
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