[Boatanchors] Re Peter Dahl Complaints

[cemilton at aol.com]

It's my guess that the conversation one ham recently related here with 
Peter Dahl himself is about as "upper management" as one can get.

  If I owned a company that could produce 100 widgits per week for a 
price of $10,000 per widgit without adding equipment or 
manpower........then I'd bust my a_ _ meeting that goal.  Especially if 
the widgit itself was a replication. Meaning the first one looks just 
like all others.

  If there was a request for a "one-off" which meant pulling personnel 
 from my cash cow and expending as much or more effort to build the 
"one-off" as the regular production............I think I know what I'd 
do.

I've used Peter Dahl before and with great satisfaction.  Nice product, 
fair price and excellent turn-around time.  I hope he finds a way to 
keep his involvement with Amateur radio intact.  But it's his company!  
He calls the shots.  And all the efforts to "keep lists" or "contact 
upper management" looks good on paper............... but this isn't a 
paper world in which we live.

Perhaps some notes of encouragement instead of complaints is in order.  
Politely, let Peter know how his business is so important to a few of 
us hams.

Let's face it..............those who know enough to even understand how 
a transformer works is dwindling.  The rice-box appliance operators of 
today and tomorrow won't be asking Peter Dahl or anyone else about 
re-winding a transformer.  They will be looking instead for a 
"module".............or better still, a new rig.

Just one ham's opinion here.  No malice intended.

YMMV

73 de W4MIL
Chuck


 -----Original Message-----
 From: Duane Fischer, W8DBF <dfischer at usol.com>
 To: boatanchors at mailman.qth.net
 Sent: Wed, 23 May 2007 12:31 pm
 Subject: [Boatanchors] Re Peter Dahl Complaints



  Why not cut and paste this list of complaints about the product, or 
seeming
  lack thereof, and send it by regular mail to the upper management of 
the
 Peter Dahl Company? All of the issues raised here should get their
 attention. If not, then perhaps they simply do not want, or need, the
 business of Ham Radio operators.

  I suspect that if Hams stopped buying products using transformers by 
Peter
  Dahl, and buying replacement transformers for ones that failed in 
equipment
  they currently own, that the bean counters at the Peter Dahl bean 
stalk
  plant might have a vision of some guy named Jack climbing down their 
ego
  tower and chopping their profits off at the stalk like bean stalk 
leaves
 with brown fungal financial blight. Sometimes the best stimulus for
 financial growth is a swift kick in the decimal point placement!

 Duane Fischer, W8DBF/WPE8CXO
 dfischer at usol.com
 HHI: Halligan's Hallicrafters International
 http://www.w9wze.net
 HHRP: Historic Halligan Radio Project
 hhrp.w9wze.net

 _______________________________________________
 Boatanchors mailing list
 Boatanchors at mailman.qth.net
 http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/boatanchors
 ** List Administrator - Duane Fischer, W8DBF/W9WZE **
 ** For Assistance: dfischer at usol.com **
 $$ For vintage radio info, see the HCI web site $$
 http://www.w9wze.org


________________________________________________________________________
AOL now offers free email to everyone.  Find out more about what's free 
from AOL at AOL.com.