[Hallicrafters] Re: Musicality -- OT

[Brent Seres]

Bruce Wright wrote:

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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
>
>
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This whole thing reminds me of some of the things that were happening 
during the CB craze of the late 1970's. I was working for the Canadian 
Department of Communications at the time, and we had to address many of 
these issues in our daily dealings with the local CB populace. I 
remember one product on the market caled "Liquid Boot".  This remarkable 
chemical was supposed to ad many dB's of gain on both transmit and 
receive simply by spraying it on your antenna..at something like 30.00 
for a small bottle. It turned out to be nicely packaged Windex.

Regards

Brent  VE3CUS