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

[James Duffer]

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Well at ga hamfest 3 months later traded for plus cash for a kenwood 
ts850sat. It was gaurenteeeed to be top notch. Just been to kenwood for 
realinement. You know the deal. 2 Days later at home it quit.
snip.

Would it made a difference if it had quit two weeks, or two months later?
If you would of tested it at the fest, would that made a difference?

This reminds me of an incident occuring in Germany.  A Major Birch tried to 
make me guarentee that an AN/GRC-46 would work when we went to Ogau (I was 
stationed in Lenggries).  He was specifically concerned about the  
transmitter T-195.  I explained that I could test it at Lenggries and only 
state that it was working.  I couldn't guarentted that it would work further 
down the road.  This wasn't good enough, so he ordered a new (or rebuilt) 
T-195 from the Pirmaseans Depot in France.  You guessed it, it started 
blowing smoke out of the exhaust blower vents when turned on.

Wold you guarentee a light bulb to work two days later?  More than likely it 
would, but there is also a chance it won't.  Electronics systems are subject 
to failures of all sorts.  The best way to deal with it is to go for 
redundency.

m2cw

73, wd4air