Fw: [TenTec] Serious stuff!! Changed Logo Color??

John Gwin jtgwin@home.com
Fri, 1 Feb 2002 17:35:52 -0600


----- Original Message -----
From: "John Gwin" <jtgwin@home.com>
To: "Jim Reid" <jimr.reid@verizon.net>
Sent: Friday, February 01, 2002 4:41 PM
Subject: Re: [TenTec] Serious stuff!! Changed Logo Color??


> Jim,
>
>     Receiving your e-mail, I immediately dismissed Court and high-tailed
it
> home to perform a dot-check on my 6+.  Sure enough, reddish dot.
>
>     Now, in the tradition of this Reflector and those who wax so
eloquently
> here, I feel it is my duty to instigate an investigation into The Great
Dot
> Caper.
>
>     First and foremost, an untrained ear doesn't have a prayer in
ferreting
> out the phase noise and truncated dits of an off-color dot.  You may be
able
> to borrow a $39,000.00 Ultrasonic Dot Checker and pursue that avenue.  Or,
> you could invoke the tireless wisdom of Doctor Jerry something-or-other,
but
> the answer would be copyrighted (all rights reserved), and if you repeated
> it, he'd have to shoot you.
>
>     So let me see if I can help.   Does this off-color dot chirp?  What is
> it's nano-seconded rise time?  Does it bleed-over on 160m?  And, hey -
> what's the dot color on an Icom 750 Pro?
>
>     Inquiring minds want to know.  After all, a man just can't be expected
> to enjoy his Pegasus or his Jupiter (and the clean sound they produce)
> having plain-old QSOs and such, when there's the whole Dot Issue to be
> resolved!
>
>     Frantically try to remove tongue from cheek, I remain.....
>
> -W4SK
>
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Jim Reid" <jimr.reid@verizon.net>
> To: <tentec@contesting.com>
> Sent: Friday, February 01, 2002 3:29 PM
> Subject: [TenTec] Serious stuff!! Changed Logo Color??
>
>
> > Had the gear here a few weeks now,  and have just
> > noticed the little red/orange dot in the center of the
> > TT logo is BLACK on both my Pegasus and RX-340!!
> >
> > That dot has been a shade of red or orange ever since
> > my Triton 544 of the late 70's era, and still is on my
> > Corsair II and both 961 and 962 power supplies.  Am
> > sure it was red on my Omni VI+  now sold and gone,
> > wasn't it??
> >
> > A bit concerned....
> >
> > 73,  Jim  KH7M
> >
> >
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