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

[NJ0IP]

The only thing wrong with your story is that "Pirmasens" is in Germany, not
in France - although before France returned the Saarland to Germany back in
1959 (or so), Pirmasens was very near the French border.  Now it's well
within Germany.

I know that Depot well.  I once visited it (about 1973) and watched them
destroy about 100 KWM-2A's (with a blow-torch and a sledge hammer) because
they had previously belonged to the Army Security Agency and could still
contain top secrets !!! 

73
Rick



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From: tentec-bounces at contesting.com [mailto:tentec-bounces at contesting.com]
On Behalf Of James Duffer
Sent: Wednesday, February 16, 2005 6:09 AM
To: tentec at contesting.com
Subject: Re: [TenTec] Good faith & John Swisher KE4CCI (long)

snip.
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


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