[Hallicrafters] Re: Musicality -- OT

[Bruce Wright]

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Date: Wed, 2 Feb 2005 11:23:27 -0500
From: "Bill Gerhold" <wpgerhold at elongo.com>
Subject: RE: [Hallicrafters] Musicality
To: "'Rich Oliver'" <Rich.Oliver at lowell.edu>,	"'Ian'"
	<ianwebb5 at comcast.net>, <hallicrafters at mailman.qth.net>
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"Don't' laugh.  This guy has found a goldmine in this type of business
and is the American way at its finest.  Our problem, is being too
educated to know the difference and our fault for not trying the same
thing he is doing.  He may very well be a savvy ham making and honest
buck.

K2WH"
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Bill, et al...

I seem to have a problem with the current business climate that has taken 
shape in the audio components market...Urban legends in any number of areas 
involving false claims and undocumented "tests" for cables, capacitors, 
connectors, even paint to be applied to semiconductors to improve their 
performance, or an AC mains duplex socket of "superior dielectric material" 
(at $30 a pop) to improve the performance of your audio gear...etc., 
etc...This list goes on and on...Page through any current periodical devoted 
to "high end" audio gear and you will clearly understand what I am referring 
to...A whole cottage industry built largely on the ignorance of consumers 
with fantastic expectations and more dollars than sense (knowledge).

It seems to me that if the person you suggest as a "savvy ham making an 
honest buck" is indeed savvy (that is, knowledgeable to a degree more so 
than his "customers"), then to sell them something that he knows to have a 
frivolous value beyond its real application and inherent value is not 
honest, but dishonest and of questionable moral character...If he is a ham, 
then at the minimum--in my opinion--his actions are contrary to the spirit 
of the amateur radio community.

Perhaps I misinterpreted your remarks and am acting as a troublemaker...if 
so, my apologies here-and-now.

FWIW.

Bruce
WC5CW