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Re: [TenTec] Ten-Tec market visibility

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Subject: Re: [TenTec] Ten-Tec market visibility
From: "Rick - DJ0IP / NJ0IP" <Rick@DJ0IP.de>
Reply-to: Discussion of Ten-Tec Equipment <tentec@contesting.com>
Date: Sat, 1 Sep 2012 17:48:23 +0200
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Feel free to interpret it any way you please, John.

When I read a manual and see something which reads "CAUTION", I don't feel
like I'm being yelled at.
I think "here's something extra important to pay attention to."
The world has been doing this long before there was an Internet.
 
...and I'm not changing my way of writing, just because some people choose
to extend or even change the meaning of CAPITAL letters.

There are lots of words with 2 or more meanings so why not have two meanings
for certain ways of writing?
In each case people just have to engage their brain to figure out which
meaning was meant.
I assume most of us here are capable of that.  ;-)

73
Rick, DJ0IP


-----Original Message-----
From: TenTec [mailto:tentec-bounces@contesting.com] On Behalf Of John
Sent: Saturday, September 01, 2012 4:50 PM
To: Discussion of Ten-Tec Equipment
Subject: Re: [TenTec] Ten-Tec market visibility

Rick,

Oh...I see...All CAPS is not yelling....It is SPEAKING LOUDLY IS FOR THOSE
OF US WITH A HEARING DEFICIT SO WE ALL CAN CONTINUE THE CONVERSATION!  THANK
YOU FOR CLARIFYING IT.

John / WA1JG

On 9/1/2012 10:26 AM, Rick - DJ0IP / NJ0IP wrote:
> NOT ALL OF US VIEW THE USE OF CAPITAL LETTERS AS YELLING!
>
> That is more of a chat/Text/Twitter thing.
>
> WE HAVE USED CAPITAL LETTERS FOR EMPHASIS FOR AS MANY YEARS AS I CAN 
> REMEMBER.
> (and that's a very long time - I have had an email account since 1983).
>
> I still use capital letters for emphasis, especially here where we 
> can't use BOLD TEXT to emphasize text.
>
> 73
> Rick, DJ0IP
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: tentec-bounces@contesting.com 
> [mailto:tentec-bounces@contesting.com]
> On Behalf Of chacuff
> Sent: Tuesday, August 28, 2012 5:12 AM
> To: Discussion of Ten-Tec Equipment
> Subject: Re: [TenTec] Ten-Tec market visibility
>
> I agree..but you didn't have to yell....
>
>
> Cecil
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Rodney" <w3krq@dejazzd.com>
> To: "Discussion of Ten-Tec Equipment" <tentec@contesting.com>
> Sent: Monday, August 27, 2012 5:26 PM
> Subject: Re: [TenTec] Ten-Tec market visibility
>
>
>> Yes,  AT TEN TEC YOU CAN GET A RADIO FOR 30 DAYS TO CHECK OUT, TRY 
>> THIS WITH OTHER RADIO OUTLET'S WHAT IS THE GOOD AT LOOKING AT THEM ON 
>> A TABLE.
>>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: Mike Hyder -N4NT-
>> Sent: Monday, August 27, 2012 5:07 PM
>> To: Discussion of Ten-Tec Equipment
>> Subject: Re: [TenTec] Ten-Tec market visibility
>>
>> One way the name Ten-Tec gets spread around is by positive 
>> word-of-mouth from fans of the brand and the products.
>>
>> 73, Mike N4NT
>>
>> ----- Original Message -----
>> From: "Douglas" <sparks06524@yahoo.com>
>> To: <tentec@contesting.com>
>> Sent: Monday, August 27, 2012 15:46
>> Subject: [TenTec] Ten-Tec market visibility
>>
>>
>>> I just got back from the New England ARRL convention at Boxboro, Mass.
>>>
>>> Ten-Tec was conspicuously absent. With no dealers selling their 
>>> products, minimal QST advertising and little attendance at larger 
>>> Hamfests, how does Ten-Tec expect to continue to be a factor in the 
>>> Amateur Equipment marketplace?
>>>
>>> Their QST ads have shrunk from being a full page ad near the 
>>> beginning of the magazine to a quarter page ad (at best) buried near 
>>> the end of the magazine.
>>>
>>> Meanwhile, Elecraft and Flex Radio were conducting forums and had 
>>> large displays. An Elecraft KX3 and a Flexradio 1500 were among the 
>>> prizes given away. Of course, the factory displays from YaeComWood 
>>> were large and conspicuous.
>>>
>>> The DX dinner and the DXpedition presentation increased a lot of 
>>> talk about the Elecraft K3's used in the expedition. If their was 
>>> talk at all about Ten-Tec and its products it was in the past tense 
>>> with words like "Elecraft is eating them for lunch".
>>>
>>> Even if Ten-Tec is hurting financially (I don't know that as a fact 
>>> but wonder why they have cut back their advertising), they had 
>>> better up their marketing and visibility or they won't be long for 
>>> the Amateur Radio marketplace.
>>>
>>> By the way, this convention had its best year in over a decade with 
>>> an attendance that exceeded 2,000. With the number of ham license 
>>> holders near an all time high of over 700,000, the rumors of the 
>>> death of our hobby are greatly exaggerated.
>>>
>>> 73,
>>>
>>> Doug/WA1TUT
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