[TenTec] Good faith & John Swisher KE4CCI (long)

[Joe Malloy]

Chuck Guenther wrote:

Alas, Chuck, I don't think that's it -- at least not if my 40 years as a 
ham are an indication.  When I got my General in 1965 I was really happy 
-- all lay open before me!  In the summer of 1966 my father bought me an 
HE-45b from the Lafayette store in Syosset, NY, where I was to work for 
a summer some years later.  I soon found being limited to a single 
transmit frequency was tough (just one crystal!) so I located a fellow 
ham (who call I forget) in Massachusetts who had a Johnson 6N2 VFO for 
sale and send the money.  He let me know it had arrived and ... a story 
like the Swischer Saga ensued.  Mine had a different ending, for after 
repeated (and I mean *repeated*) letters (no email in the stone age), 
the guy finally relented -- at a time (some six months later) when I had 
pretty much lost interest in voice work and went on over to the Bright 
Side (CW) completely.  The fellow in question was retired -- and you'd 
think his set of morals was tempered by the depression and so on, but 
for six long months it didn't seem to matter.  No excuse from him, just 
a box with the VFO *finally* arrived.

I think all ages and times have essentially the same character -- it's 
our perspective of our own that's shifting, not the public values.

But I may be wrong....

73,

Joe, W2RBA

>"On November 27th, Mr. Swisher re-sent his mailing address and I inquired if
>the MO was on its way and told him I'd advise him when it arrives.  His
>reply "Thanks". "
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>>From what you told us, he didn't directly answer your question !  I would have waited for the M.O.  I noticed on his profile he has the quote: "To thine own self be true."   Let's hope he will come through for you after reading your posting.
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>73,
>Chuck  NI0C
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