[TowerTalk] Tashjian Tower Orders

[Steve Katz]

I have told it to both of them, and explained this is why I'm not a customer. 

Well, I did build a K2 a couple of years ago but it was in stock at that time and I had it a couple days after ordering it.  I won't buy a K3 unless the same conditions prevail.

It's unfortunate that small companies are often heavy on engineering and light on operations/planning.  A professional Ops person with decades experience in startups arranges financing, vendor parts stocking for JIT and kanban, production workflow against forecast and so forth so that a small company can become a big company.  Without such talent, the small company usually remains small.

WB2WIK/6

-----Original Message-----
From: Mike Fatchett W0MU [mailto:w0mu at w0mu.com]
Sent: Monday, September 22, 2008 8:35 AM
To: Steve Katz; 'Kelly Johnson'; 'mrlogs'
Cc: towertalk at contesting.com
Subject: RE: [TowerTalk] Tashjian Tower Orders


Tell that to SteppIR and Elecraft.  You will wait months for many of their
products as the demand is far greater than their ability at this time to
supply.

Do you really expect a small firm to have one or two of everything they
offer built and ready for shipping at all times?

I would rather wait for a superior product than settle for less because it
was available.

Tashjian should do a better job at communicating a realistic deliver time.

-----Original Message-----
From: towertalk-bounces at contesting.com
[mailto:towertalk-bounces at contesting.com] On Behalf Of Steve Katz
Sent: Monday, September 22, 2008 9:23 AM
To: Kelly Johnson; mrlogs
Cc: towertalk at contesting.com
Subject: Re: [TowerTalk] Tashjian Tower Orders

"Months" is not a reasonable delivery cycle for a product.  This obviously
implies the product is built one by one, to order, and there is a long queue
preceding each.

That's unfortunate, because it is a good product but I certainly wouldn't
wait "months" for one.  When buying anything I always ask not for what I
want, but for what the vendor has.  "What do you have that you could ship
tomorrow?"

I guess I'm used to that being in the industry I'm in, where 24 hours lead
time is unacceptably long and multimillion dollar contracts are won and lost
based on who can ship in 12 hours instead.

-WB2WIK/6

-----Original Message-----
From: towertalk-bounces at contesting.com
[mailto:towertalk-bounces at contesting.com]On Behalf Of Kelly Johnson
Sent: Monday, September 22, 2008 8:13 AM
To: mrlogs
Cc: towertalk at contesting.com
Subject: Re: [TowerTalk] Tashjian Tower Orders


You certainly didn't get that from me.  As I said, mine came on time and
took less than 6 months from the time I first talked to Karl about my tower
plans until the time it arrived at my door.  Where did you get the 1 to 2
year idea?


On Sun, Sep 21, 2008 at 4:34 PM, mrlogs <mrlogs at verizon.net> wrote:
> OK..So basically..I'll get the tower, etc..Might take a year, year and 
> a half, 2 years..but I'll get it "eventually".Guess that's OK 
> then.....I'll just forget about the order for now...and maybe next 
> Spring, Summer.......who knows?..
>
>                                  73'..  Tom  N3ZC
> ----- Original Message ----- From: "Kelly Johnson" 
> <n6kj.kelly at gmail.com>
> To: "mrlogs" <mrlogs at verizon.net>
> Sent: Saturday, September 20, 2008 5:41 PM
> Subject: Re: [TowerTalk] Tashjian Tower Orders
>
>
>> I did and I had no issues.  I bought a brand new LM-354HD Tashjian 
>> Tower 2.5 years ago.  I live only about 2 hours away from Tashjian, 
>> so they kindly delivered the base fixture a few weeks early, then 
>> delivered the tower right on schedule the day of the installation.
>> K7LXC made a special trip down to the Bay Area from Washington, so 
>> any delay from Tashjian would have been a disaster.  Fortunately, 
>> they delivered and I couldn't be happier with the tower.  It is 
>> extremely heavy duty, overkill for my case actually.
>>
>> I must admit, though, that I started talking to Tashjian about my 
>> tower plans almost 6 months early, right before getting my permit.
>> Tashjian sent the full tower specs and drawings with dry stamps about
>> 5 months before my install.  I used the documents in my permit 
>> application which I received in early January.  The tower went up in 
>> April without a hitch.
>>
>> I'm a happy Tashjian customer.
>>
>>
>> On Sat, Sep 20, 2008 at 12:04 PM, mrlogs <mrlogs at verizon.net> wrote:
>>>
>>> OK..has anyone here actually purchased a new tower from Tashjian 
>>> Tower (not used from somewhere, etc) and if so..how long did it take 
>>> to get it?..I see lots of comments..no one saying they bought one 
>>> new from Tashjian Towers (not TriEx)..The comments I've read here 
>>> implies it's been an exercise in futility?....
>>>
>>>
>>> Thanks!..  Tom  N3ZC
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