[R-390] OT

[Jon Schlegel]

My funniest RadioShack moment was overhearing a guy buying an 
inexpensive VOM.  Looking at the meter, the customer rightfully asks,
    "What's this scale that's labeled 'dB' ?"
With as much authority as David's "antenna expert", the salesman responds,
    "Oh, that's decibels.  You don't need to worry about 
decibels.  Nobody uses them anymore."

Jon WA3MVM


At 06:55 PM 1/1/2009 -0600, wb5uom at hughes.net wrote:
>That was fun reading.
>
>I just went in to one of their stores this week,first time in who knows how
>many years to bet a tv preamp.
>
>I was told by one of the sales guys that they only had preamps in "Kit Form"
>When I picked up the same preamp that I had been using for 20 years, he told
>me that was the "kit"
>(it has the bullet preamp to go inline near the antenna and the power supply
>that goes down at the tv end)
>He also told me it would NOT work if used on a outside TV antenna.
>
>I laughed at him, bought it and left.
>
>I understand some of that article
>
>David / WB5UOM
>----- Original Message -----
>From: "Barry" <n4buq at knology.net>
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>Sent: Thursday, January 01, 2009 6:07 PM
>Subject: [R-390] OT
>
>
> > Funny page about Radio Shack.
> >
> > http://www.theonion.com/content/news/even_ceo_cant_figure_out_how
> >
> > Barry - N4BUQ
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