Jerry,
I very much enjoy reading your posts to the list, but as a minor style point,
it would be very helpful to me if you might break up your posts into
paragraphs. One big block of text is just hard for me to read.
Thanks.
Bernie
-----Original Message-----
From: Jerry Stewart <ne4l@hughes.net>
To: tentec <tentec@contesting.com>
Sent: Wed, Oct 18, 2017 12:47 am
Subject: [TenTec] RETen-Tec future
Please understand that the only reason I was mentioning selling the Delta II
was I am literally running out of room in my shack. It would be silly of me to
sell a used piece of gear to 'spite' the owner of c company who received no
revenue from its sale in the first place. I have a collection of PMs, Tritons,
Argosies, the DII and an Orion along with a Titan amp and and tuners etc. If I
gathered it all up, probably 40 pieces of Ten-Tec gear. Offering one piece is
hardly an indication of me giving up on Ten-Tec. As an engineer, I specified
and purchased many thousands of dollars worth of plastic injection molds from
Ten-Tec, an outgrowth of the relationships I had developed talking with staff
on ham gear. As far as tying up the phone line, in 40 years of hamming, I
probably made about 5 calls to order parts, one to get a rig serviced and one
less than 5 minute call to the service department, which fixed a small issue
over the phone and for which advise I would have happily
paid. But this from Mr Dishop, who I spoke with briefly right after he bought
the remains of TT at Dayton and he seemed nice enough in person is
unprofessional. I am not a troll but do know that they exist and enjoy pushing
buttons (Quote from QRZ excerpt):"If not, then here is my answer to some of you
posting nasty things here about me and making this personal. I don't need your
crap. I don't need you to ever buy a Ten Tec. Is doesn't matter what you think.
there are plenty of people who will buy the radios we make because they are
good, because they are made right here in the USA and because they are
supported and get fixed in a reasonable amount of time for a reasonable price
if they do develop a problem. There are also plenty of people who understand
the real world and what I am doing and why I have to do it. I get emails from
them all the time off of the reflector telling me they support me and TEN TEC.
You don't know anything. You aren't here. You aren't doing the jo
b. I'm doing the job. It doesn't matter how I do it - I'm doing it. Ten Tec is
open isn't it? You dumb asses just don't get it. It is ME or NOTHING. You don't
get a choice. You don't like it just go away. I don't want you or need you as a
customer. You are not worth it at any price for the aggravation you cause me.
Let me tell you something - if you buy a one thousand dollar radio that costs
me two thousand dollars to build once every ten years, just how important do
you think you are? If I am not here your radios you bought twenty years ago
that you expect to be fixed for free don't get fixed. If I am not here, EVERY
PTO REBUID KIT and EVERY DIAL STRING KIT goes right in the trash. Every bit of
documentation gets burned and every thing else gets bashed with a sledge
hammer. Are we clear? This is not a democracy. You don't get a say. You vote
with your dollar. So if you don't like it, throw your TEN TEC in the trash and
go be a pain in Gerald's or Eric's ass instead of mine.
I have news for you. They don't want you for a customer either, though they
will never admit it. But then you don't hear the conversations behind the
scenes when the ham fest door's are closed, do you?Yes, I am a business owner.
I am also a MAN first, not a coward with a keyboard, and when you disrespect me
I am going to tell you to step off. If you do it in person chances are I'm
going to reach down your throat and pull your lungs out if you give me an
excuse so please throw the first punch. I'm real easy to find. Come on over and
lets have a nice little get together. If you want to make an attack, then make
it! Draw, coward. Put up or shut up. That is my final answer.Have I offended
some of you? Good. Get over it. Some of you are going to appreciate what I
wrote. Maybe you will support a real fellow American patriot and ham enthusiast
and vote for me with your dollar and buy a Ten Tec, Alpha or Dishtronix. Maybe
you are sick of the cool aid everybody else tries to push on
you. Maybe you want to deal with somebody honest who just tells you the
truth. Maybe you want to deal with somebody just like you. I'm here and truly I
appreciate your business now more than ever. I really do need your support.
Thank you!I find the above self-contradicting, even if it wasn't directed at
me, some who asked legitimate questions seemed to be thrown in the mix of those
whose business he does not want. He is TERRIBLE at communication and if you
don't want rumors or stupidity being spread about your business, YOU have to be
out front. In other posts in the same thread, he gave some really good info
about equipment purchases and development progress. But after telling people
to get lost in the above rant, he ends it with "Yes, I am a business owner. I
am also a MAN first, not a coward with a keyboard, and when you disrespect me I
am going to tell you to step off. If you do it in person chances are I'm going
to reach down your throat and pull your lungs out if y
ou give me an excuse so please throw the first punch. I'm real easy to find.
Come on over and lets have a nice little get together. If you want to make an
attack, then make it! Draw, coward. Put up or shut up. That is my final
answer.Have I offended some of you? Good. Get over it. Some of you are going to
appreciate what I wrote. Maybe you will support a real fellow American patriot
and ham enthusiast and vote for me with your dollar and buy a Ten Tec, Alpha or
Dishtronix. Maybe you are sick of the cool aid everybody else tries to push on
you. Maybe you want to deal with somebody honest who just tells you the truth.
Maybe you want to deal with somebody just like you. I'm here and truly I
appreciate your business now more than ever. I really do need your support.
Thank you!" So which is it? Does he want customers and their support or does
he want to fight them?In other posts, he once again suggested people should
pony up for 100 non-existent Eagles to kick-start the company
or buy one of $4,000 microphones to help him build his business location.
Like I say, I liked him well enough in person but I have no interest in
providing financing for a business at full retailI am not trying to be a critic
or drag his company down. I've been in business, it is not easy. But try
going to a restaurant where the kitchen staff is cussing the wait staff and the
manager is ballistic. If I don't walk out immediately, I sure as heck won't
return. He is calling people out to have a physical altercation and "pull your
lungs out". That is flat-out unstable and could possibly be prosecuted as a
terroristic threat. He needs to have a person to handle his communications,
his talents are sorely lacking unless you enjoy the drama of the current
political environment and perhaps consider this as entertainment. I just have
to wonder if I do buy something and there is an issue, how unhinged is this guy
going to get? I don't have a need to deal with someone "just li
ke me". But I don't have a need to deal with someone that considers the above
good business practice. Maybe if he gets some chill pills or production gets
rolling enough, he can settle down and not worry about every sentence that is
typed about Ten-Tec on the web. I DO want him to make a success of Ten-Tec,
REALLY, I do. But I'm just not going to pay any attention any further until
there is stock on the shelves, a means to look at it and someone to talk to
that does not have an undue interest in inspecting my pulmonary
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