[Boatanchors] Peter Dahl transformers for AmateurRadio-MaybeLater....

[EP Swynar]

Oh Grant,

You seem to have forgotten the old adage of, "Be kind to the people on your
way up, because you'll meet these very same people again on your way
down..."

As an active Amateur Radio operator, Fred Hammond certainly needed no
lecture on humility: many was the time I heard guys thanking him on the air
during the course of the Antique Wireless Association's Sunday net, for
mailing them some much-needed component from his factory to their shack
door, for FREE (Fred would often do "one offs"  like this for Hams, a task
that sometimes entailed dredging-up old prints & tools, & then re-deploying
his engineering / factory staff to the task).

The man really COULD make you feel like you were, indeed, "...the centre of
the world"...and at the business end of things, that's the sort of thing
that's just plain, good old-fashioned (and effective) salemanship...

It's also a thing called "CLASS" --- and yes, Fred WAS a classy guy, in the
truest sense of the word.

What a great pity it is that the vast majority of to-day's so-called
"captains" of industry have wholesale replaced "class" with a thing called
"SHORT TERM GREED". I'm surprised Dahl & Co. haven't yet relocated their
stock & trade to Shanghai, or Calcutta, where they could maximize same...but
I'll wager that's coming, too: after all, it only makes "...perfectly good
business sense," doesn't it?

~73~ Eddy VE3CUI - VE3XZ


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----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Grant Youngman" <nq5t at tx.rr.com>
To: <boatanchors at mailman.qth.net>
Sent: Tuesday, May 22, 2007 9:07 PM
Subject: RE: [Boatanchors] Peter Dahl transformers for
AmateurRadio-MaybeLater....


> > Yes, indeed, but the thing for all to remember --- especially
> > Mr. Dahl &
> > Company! --- is that it was the AMATEURS who gave him his
> > first support in
> > this business, and NOT the big commercial outfits...
> > He could learn a lesson, or two, in humility from the likes of the
> > late-great Mssrs. Fred Hammond, & Art Collins, two very FB
> > gentlemen who
>
> Whatever we do, let's not forget that WE are the center of the world ...
>
> It makes perfectly good business sense that if Dahl (or Collins or Fred)
has
> a very large order of stuff, probably with contracted delivery deadlines,
> that it might not make sense to break the production line for a one-off.
>
> Frankly, I hope we aren't stupid enough to think it won't matter if Dahl
> stops building transformers for our gear.  Nobody needs some lecture on
> "humility", especially not from us.
>
> Grant/NQ5T
>
>
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