[TrunkCom] re: Technical knowledge

Thu, 10 Jan 2002 20:46:35 -0500

 Why...

When Uniden make a portable scanner with alpha tags like the
Pro-92 and 93 I'll buy it. I've put my 245 aside as I find the
pro92 / 93 so much easier with the tags.

Also the intermod problem is bad on Uniden scanners vs
Pro 92 / 93 here in the San Jose area. I hate the squealing
on my car scanner BCT7.

... that's why

Tom Thornton wrote:

> Why do people buy RS scanners.  I do a lot of business at RS but have always
> ordered scanners directly from Uniden.  Why put up with a clone when you can
> have the real thing.  Scanner cos that retail directly from Uniden advertise
> in Firehouse Magazine EVERY month.
>
> RICK BORGMAN wrote:
>
> > let's hope you don't get bounced from the list for expressing an opinion
> >
> > At 01:05 PM 1/9/2002, you wrote:
> > >I cannot find without being vulgar, enough degrading words to describe
> > >most RS staff. These greedy morons being the only electronics show in
> > >town in many places are a real turnoff insofar as the people they hire.
> > >All I do anymore is enter the store go the counter and say give me a
> > >e.g. 95-200 widget. pay and leave, If I am browsing, and the "sales
> > >clerk" says may I help you, I will say no thank you, If he really hangs
> > >dumbly over my shoulder, I tell him to go and catch flies if he has the
> > >ability to do so and if I need help I will call.
> > >
> > >Sometimes I purposely ask a question about how a product works based on
> > >its electronic principle and when he starts to look bewildered and
> > >begins to twitch, I proceed to drill him further as to just why he would
> > >be present in an electronics shop and not be properly trained. Often it
> > >is the store manager who i wind up berating.
> > >
> > >I am negativly fueled because in the late 1980's a real technically
> > >orientated manager got fired by those RS idiots because his total year
> > >sales volume had dropped 2% from the previous year. Need I go on that
> > >his replacement was as dumb as a stump.
> > >
> > >I dearly miss the Allied Radio shack, Lafayette Radio and other ma and
> > >pa shops where people knew their stuff. 30 years back, many of the RS
> > >clerks were technically orientated not these pimpled faced punks who
> > >only want to look slick, be cool and know nothing who only know fast
> > >sales pitches drilled into their skulls during their "Saturday Morning
> > >indoctrination sessions as mandated by Fort Worth.
> > >
> > >I feel real alone these days with few experts to call upon for help.
> > >Thank god there are a few of the real amateur radio operators that have
> > >real technical backgrounds I can bounce ideas off of.
> > >
> > >If there are any RS higherups wishing to defend this , the only
> > >acceptable rebuttal would be the hiring of technically orientated
> > >people. Any jerk can ring up a sales with todays Pavlove's dogs style
> > >computer based cash registers which even count out the change for the
> > >dummies.
> > >
> > >Sorry, but this is a real sore spot of contention for me the past
> > >decade.
> > >
> > >Mark A. Walker
> > >AV Services
> > >419 530 - 7712
> > >Customer Services Hotline: 530 - 2428
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> > >customer services email: [email protected]
> > >
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