Topband: HI-Z BACK IN BUSINESS

[Herb Schoenbohm]

Today's trial lawyers are not sleeping dogs but hungry predators.  You 
let them rest and you will be their next meal.  You see their ads on TV 
every hour willing to litigate on everything imaginable.  Who pays for 
this?  We do...the consumer gets intercoursed so trial lawyers get rich 
and famous. Now lets ratchet back to the 50's and 60's when two superb 
individuals, both were hams, and both were in the same business making 
broadcast transmitters and also selling systems to the military.  They 
were competitors, both in the Midwest with operations a few hundred 
miles apart. I knew both well (my office was just across the hall from 
one of them (Parker Gates) in Quincy, Illinois and the other Art Collins 
I new when I lived down the road from Cedar Rapids in Iowa City where I 
was first licensed in 1954.  On Saturday mornings Art Collins would open 
up his warehouse and sell first class comopnents to hams for next to 
nothing like 4CX250B's for a quarter if they had a bent fin or any other 
cosmetic imperfection.  They would never ever think of suing each other 
for "patent infringement" and only argued over a round of golf at the 
club house.

What ever happened to this wonderful Midwestern ethic of friendship and 
trust?  These were two giants in the radio industry who never fought 
brutal wars like Thomas Edison and Nicoli Tesla or engaged in the 
corporate warfare that caused Major Edwin Armstrong (inventor of FM 
Radio) to jump from a NYC high rise because David Sarnoff had political 
friends that for a time blocking his wonderful inventions.  The big 
three out of Detroit did the same thing to automotive genius Preston 
Tucker  using political power to squash a better idea in building cars.

Like they say when "elephants fight the grass gets trampled" and in our 
case we all lose and we all have to pay in some manner for this 
corporate warfare. What a shame.


Herb Schoenbohm, KV4FZ






On 5/31/2012 6:54 PM, W0UCE wrote:
> Hi-Z is IN BUSINESS it is so simple to understand - why beat any reason or
> announcements to death?
>
> Let sleeping dogs rest.
>
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: topband-bounces at contesting.com [mailto:topband-bounces at contesting.com]
> On Behalf Of Guy Olinger K2AV
> Sent: Thursday, May 31, 2012 4:54 PM
> To: Anthony Scandurra
> Cc: topband at contesting.com; Larry Emery
> Subject: Re: Topband: HI-Z BACK IN BUSINESS
>
> They put that up during the day today.  73, Guy.
>
> On Thu, May 31, 2012 at 3:33 PM, Anthony Scandurra<k4qe at att.net>  wrote:
>
>>  From the Hi-Z Antennas site...
>>
>> *The Hi-Z 4, Hi-Z 8N, and the Hi-Z 8W products are being sold as
>> permitted under the terms of a*
>>
>> *certain License Agreement among PDS Electronics, Inc. dba DX
>> Engineering, as the Licensor,*
>>
>> *and Hi-Z Antennas and Lee Strahan, as the Licensees.*
>>
>> On Thu, May 31, 2012 at 3:30 PM, Anthony Scandurra<k4qe at att.net>  wrote:
>>
>>> In fact, they have changed it.
>>>
>>> And there are now some notes on the product pages indicating that they
>>> have a licensing agreement with PDS (aka DX Engineering).
>>>
>>> 73, Tony
>>>
>>>
>>> On Thu, May 31, 2012 at 11:05 AM, Guy Olinger K2AV<olinger at bellsouth.net
>>>> wrote:
>>>> They have not removed the "Legal Troubles" banner from their web page
>>>> yet.
>>>>
>>>> 73, Guy
>>>>
>>>> On Thu, May 31, 2012 at 10:58 AM, Larry Emery<k1uo at uninet.net>  wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> According to the latest Newsletter dated May30 2012 Hi-Z is back in
>>>>> business
>>>>> for good and taking orders!   FB Guys..  Good luck in your venture!
>>>>>
>>>>> 73
>>>>> Larry K1UO
>>>>>
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