[TenTec] where do you get your CLAP TRAP?

[Kim Elmore]

Upon reflection, Wade makes an excellent point: my use of the word "claptrap" is regrettable and I sincerely apologize to any and all affected. 

I should have used the much better word "humbug."

Kim N5OP

"People that make music together cannot be enemies, at least as long as the music lasts." -- Paul Hindemith

> On Jan 28, 2015, at 1:13, Wade Staggs <tvman1954 at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> *Where can I get a Clap Trap? Do they remove all of the Clap from your
> signal? hi .. hi .. My Friends tell me that my Clap Trap is always running.
> Is it normal for one to do that? My signal would probably be much cleaner
> with a better Clap Trap installed. *
> *                                  73 to All from Wade/KJ4WS *
> 
>> On Tue, Jan 27, 2015 at 6:29 PM, Martin Pelt <n4uu73 at gmail.com> wrote:
>> 
>> John,
>> 
>> I love contesting and very satisfied with my Orion's. Guess I better get
>> back to working on my antennas. Lots of storms here on Monkey Island.
>> 
>> 73, Martin N4UU
>> 
>> On Tue, Jan 27, 2015 at 6:35 PM, John King via TenTec <
>> tentec at contesting.com
>>> wrote:
>> 
>>> Kim, why did you interpret my very flattering email about my experience
>>> with Ten Tec as NEGATIVE? It was meant to be very complimentary of Ten
>> Tec.
>>> My experience with Ten Tec goes back on a personal and business basis
>> with
>>> Larry Worth, Garland Jenkins and Jack Burchfield goes back  over 35 years
>>> when Al Kahn was still there and alive. Sounds like you need an attitude
>>> adjustment.
>>> 
>>> I doubt that  people who are holding their breath for a contest radio
>> that
>>> speaks for them, logs their contact, keeps their coffee warm,  and
>>> dispenses amphetamines so they can stay a week to make three Zillion
>> points
>>> in the Super Ego Good Buddy Contest from Monkey Island and gives them an
>>> attitude adjustment when they only make 11 Zillion pointsr will ever be
>>> satisfied with a transceiver selling for less than $13,000.00 and a
>> handful
>>> of Big Bubba  Automatic Rachet Jaw Coupons. Big Bubba Automatic Ratchet
>>> Coupons are very hard to acquire and set the possessor apart from the
>>> average Amateur thereby making that beloved Contest Radio unobtainable by
>>> Rag Chewers.
>>> 
>>> I was merely sharing my good experiences with Ten Tec and sharing my not
>>> so satisfactory experiences with Rockwell Collins. By the way, I probably
>>> have more Collins Radios than you have Ten Tec and probably more Ten Tecs
>>> than you. Your extreme defensiveness reminds me of a paranoid client I
>> once
>>> had.   In closing, I do have HOPE and DO SUPPORT Ten Tec by doing more
>> than
>>> being merely defensive. I do promote Ten Tec and have nothing but great
>>> regard for Ten Tec.Think about your what you are attacking next time .
>> 73,
>>> John, K5PGW
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