I think your message is totally uncalled for....and you owe Steve
an apology. 73 de Greg-N4CC
At 02:24 AM 7/13/98 -0400, you wrote:
>
>> To Will, Terry and the entire TowerTalk group:
>>
>> As President of Cushcraft, I try to avoid getting into all of the day
>> to day details of things such as the content of our instruction
>> manuals and web page.
>
>Translation: Don't trust anything we put in writing.
>
>> I do this for two reasons - one is to let
>> people excel to the best of there abilities and the other is not to
>> force my opinions on them.
>
>Translation: I am not responsible for the quality of my company's products.
>
>> I quite simply did not realize that we had
>> formally announced a 2 element kit to this extent.
>
>Translation: I don't check the facts before making public statements.
>
>> I also don't want to start blaming Art for everything bad that had
>> happened in the past because he did a lot of great things for
>> Cushcraft.
>
>Translation: I'm going to wait a full sentence before blaming Art for this.
>
>> He was solely responsible for the manual and web page
>> content
>
>Translation: It was all Art's fault.
>
>> , however, I still stand behind my statement in the last
>> message:
>
>Translation: I am never wrong.
>
>> "These statements were made by Art without him or the rest of our
>> organization being sure that a two element kit would work. I suspect
>> Art had meant that a two element add on kit was our design
>> goal rather than it being a promise."
>
>Translation: We assume that our customers are telepathic.
>
>> I also stand behind the following statements:
>>
>> "As far as the X940 being only a single element - our engineering
>> effort was lead by Danny (T93M) who designed both the X7 and the X9.
>> He tried to implement a two element solution but it was not
>> significantly better than a single element and it degraded the X9
>> performance on the other bands. We were not willing to make the
>> performance sacrifice on the other bands and we were not willing to
>> provide an inferior two element solution.
>
>Translation: You should have modeled our design before placing your order.
>
>> Had we implemented an inferior two element solution, most users in
>the
>> amateur community may have never noticed.
>
>Translation: Our customers are ignorant and never discuss antennas with each
>other.
>
>> However, that's not the way Cushcraft operates - period."
>
>Translation: Just because our competitors can make 2 elements work well
>doesn't mean we can.
>
>> Feedback is always welcome and appreciated. I will deal with any
>> comments this community has to offer fairly and with honesty.
>
>Translation: As exemplified by this letter.
>
>> 73
>> Steve Best
>> President
>> Cushcraft Corporation
>
>
>
>I assume that the original message was a prank or a spoof, but just could
>not resist annotating it. Someone out there has a great sense of humor...
>
> Dave, AA6YQ
>
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