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Re: [TenTec] where do you get your CLAP TRAP?

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Subject: Re: [TenTec] where do you get your CLAP TRAP?
From: "Rick - DJ0IP / NJ0IP" <Rick@DJ0IP.de>
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Date: Wed, 28 Jan 2015 13:52:43 +0100
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I don't even know what a claptrap is, so it couldn't be too bad!
Maybe somebody can clue me in "off-line".

73 - Rick, DJ0IP
(Nr. Frankfurt am Main)


-----Original Message-----
From: TenTec [mailto:tentec-bounces@contesting.com] On Behalf Of Kim Elmore
Sent: Wednesday, January 28, 2015 1:43 PM
To: Discussion of Ten-Tec Equipment
Subject: Re: [TenTec] where do you get your CLAP TRAP?

Upon reflection, Wade makes an excellent point: my use of the word
"claptrap" is regrettable and I sincerely apologize to any and all affected.


I should have used the much better word "humbug."

Kim N5OP

"People that make music together cannot be enemies, at least as long as the
music lasts." -- Paul Hindemith

> On Jan 28, 2015, at 1:13, Wade Staggs <tvman1954@gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> *Where can I get a Clap Trap? Do they remove all of the Clap from your 
> signal? hi .. hi .. My Friends tell me that my Clap Trap is always
running.
> Is it normal for one to do that? My signal would probably be much 
> cleaner with a better Clap Trap installed. *
> *                                  73 to All from Wade/KJ4WS *
> 
>> On Tue, Jan 27, 2015 at 6:29 PM, Martin Pelt <n4uu73@gmail.com> wrote:
>> 
>> John,
>> 
>> I love contesting and very satisfied with my Orion's. Guess I better 
>> get back to working on my antennas. Lots of storms here on Monkey Island.
>> 
>> 73, Martin N4UU
>> 
>> On Tue, Jan 27, 2015 at 6:35 PM, John King via TenTec < 
>> tentec@contesting.com
>>> wrote:
>> 
>>> Kim, why did you interpret my very flattering email about my 
>>> experience with Ten Tec as NEGATIVE? It was meant to be very 
>>> complimentary of Ten
>> Tec.
>>> My experience with Ten Tec goes back on a personal and business 
>>> basis
>> with
>>> Larry Worth, Garland Jenkins and Jack Burchfield goes back  over 35 
>>> years when Al Kahn was still there and alive. Sounds like you need 
>>> an attitude adjustment.
>>> 
>>> I doubt that  people who are holding their breath for a contest 
>>> radio
>> that
>>> speaks for them, logs their contact, keeps their coffee warm,  and 
>>> dispenses amphetamines so they can stay a week to make three Zillion
>> points
>>> in the Super Ego Good Buddy Contest from Monkey Island and gives 
>>> them an attitude adjustment when they only make 11 Zillion pointsr 
>>> will ever be satisfied with a transceiver selling for less than 
>>> $13,000.00 and a
>> handful
>>> of Big Bubba  Automatic Rachet Jaw Coupons. Big Bubba Automatic 
>>> Ratchet Coupons are very hard to acquire and set the possessor apart 
>>> from the average Amateur thereby making that beloved Contest Radio 
>>> unobtainable by Rag Chewers.
>>> 
>>> I was merely sharing my good experiences with Ten Tec and sharing my 
>>> not so satisfactory experiences with Rockwell Collins. By the way, I 
>>> probably have more Collins Radios than you have Ten Tec and probably 
>>> more Ten Tecs than you. Your extreme defensiveness reminds me of a 
>>> paranoid client I
>> once
>>> had.   In closing, I do have HOPE and DO SUPPORT Ten Tec by doing more
>> than
>>> being merely defensive. I do promote Ten Tec and have nothing but 
>>> great regard for Ten Tec.Think about your what you are attacking next
time .
>> 73,
>>> John, K5PGW
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