[TenTec] Hanging Black Crepe

[Ten-Tec Inc. Amateur Radio Sales]

At 08:39 PM 2/11/04 -0500, you wrote:

>Apparently my "black crepe" reference was read by some to mean a funeral 
>is looming for Ten-Tec. What I said about the future of T-T is that it's 
>engaged in "somewhat of a gamble" with its present product lineup. That is 
>irrefutable.

Manufacturing and selling products of any kind is a gamble.  The big gamble
we took was leaving a year-long gap in our product line between the
Omni-VI Plus discontinuance and the release of the Orion.  There was
no guarantee the Orion was going to be the huge hit that it has been -
all that engineering time that went into it didn't go into other products
that we could have offered.  If the Orion hadn't been a big seller, then
that time is lost, gone, non-recoverable at any price.

Manufacturing is a miracle every day - I find it amazing anything gets
built by anyone, it's such a complicated process.

Scott Robbins
W4PA


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