Doesn't matter where they are located.
If a company has the technical expertise, they should have the
capability for someone to proof read what ever come out of advertising
and AFAIK, they do. Now if they outsource their advertising they are
still responsible for the content whether software or human translators
as the result reflects directly on the quality of their products.
73
Roger (K8RI)
On 5/30/2016 Monday 6:27 PM, Al Kozakiewicz wrote:
Since the company is based in Taiwan, I'll bet dollars for donuts that no one
"wrote" that ad; rather, it was run through Google translate and that's what
comes out when you translate technical Mandarin to English with software that speaks
neither.
Attributing technical incompetence to such foreign companies is just so
Imperialist running dog.
Reminds me of the Dave Barry column "Read This First". A sample: INSTRUCTIONS:
For results that can be the finest, it is our advising that: Never to hold these buttons
two times!! Except the battery. Next, taking the (something) earth section may cause a
large occurrence! However. If this is not a trouble, such rotation is a very maintenance
action, as a kindly (something) viewpoint from Drawing B.
Al
AB2ZY
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Sent: Monday, May 30, 2016 5:48 PM
To: towertalk@contesting.com
Subject: Re: [TowerTalk] Heat from nearby lightning strikes...
Gas discharge units "do work", but unfortunately their advertising department,
or whoever wrote the add, has no understanding of how they work.
That is enough to turn off knowledgeable "potential" customers.
IOW, that add probably cost them more customers than it gained.
73
Roger (K8RI)
On 5/30/2016 Monday 9:03 AM, Patrick Greenlee wrote:
All towers are lightning magnets so we are or should be interested in
protection but... Is it just me or does anyone else have a problem
(Problem = old fashioned term for issue) with the advertising copy below?
Arc Gas Discharge
*Lightning Protection*
OPEK MODEL: LP-350A
Warmer temperatures bring an increased thunderstorm activity. So, now
is the time to protect your radios. A good way to do this is with
lightning protectors that utilize 'arc-gas' discharge tubes. Heat from
nearby lightning strikes rapidly expand the gas inside the tubes
opening the antenna feedline much quicker that old fashion surge
protectors.
What a revelation, all these years I thought the gas tubes ionized
above a certain potential offering lightning induced currents a low
impedance path to ground thus protecting equipment further down the
coax. But now we know that heat from nearby lightning strikes
expanding the gas to create an "open" is the agent of protection not
ionized gas offering a low impedance path to ground. (all those years
studying physics... wasted.) Associative memory... I recall a flight
attendant on a red eye from Dulles to San Diego instructing the
sparsely occupied cabin that in the event of sudden loss of cabin
pressure masks would deploy from the ceiling and that we should grasp
the mask firmly, give a tug to start the flow of oxygen, place the
mask over our navel and continue to breathe normally. Maybe later she
got a job writing advertising copy.
Patrick NJ5G
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