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I agree with you, Lou. That's the danger of building something that appeals
to such a small market. I'm surprised they sold it for as long as they did.
Steve
----- Original Message -----
From: "Lou Kline" <[log in to unmask]>
To: <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: Sunday, December 16, 2007 21:37
Subject: Re: LDG TW-1 and TW-2 being discontinued
> Hi.
>
> I think they painted themselves into a corner by not putting a visual
> display on there as well. That pretty much guaranteed that only blind
> operators would buy them, and only ones that didn't already have some
> other
> meter that was accessible. I think that if they had put an actual meter
> on
> there, they would have had some sales in the sighted ham community as well
> and these meters would have been more widely received. Just my two cents.
>
> 73, de Lou K2LKK
>
>
>
> At 06:11 PM 12/16/2007 -0500, you wrote:
>> Steve:
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>>I think it's strange that there's no reason given for the discontinuation.
>>
>>Are they just changing directions, going to replace them with newer
>>models,
>>going out of business, or what?
>>
>>Either way, it's a real shame that another accessible piece of technology
>>is
>>soon going to become unavailable.
>>
>>73 from Tom Behler: KB8TYJ
>>
>>----- Original Message -----
>>From: "steve" <[log in to unmask]>
>>To: <[log in to unmask]>
>>Sent: Sunday, December 16, 2007 5:19 PM
>>Subject: LDG TW-1 and TW-2 being discontinued
>>
>>
>> > After seeing some posts on this subject during the past week, I just
>> > dropped a e-mail to LDG to see what the real deal is. Just got a
>> > fast
>> > Sunday afternoon reply from LDg telling me that both the TW-1 and TW-2
>> > are
>> > being discontinued at the end of 2008 with no replacement planned.
>> >
>> > 73, Steve KW3A
>> >
>> >
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>>
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