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Patrick Byrne <[log in to unmask]>
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Blind-Hams For blind ham radio operators <[log in to unmask]>
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Wed, 1 Dec 2004 07:58:24 -0600
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Well said Walt.
Pat, K9JAUAt 08:55 AM 12/1/2004 -0500, you wrote:
>And when I have encountered some kind of problem, I have never had any
>trouble receiving a completely satisfactory resolution, be it a replacement
>or a refund. Do I trust most RS employees to know anything at all about
>their products? No way...but that is just as true of some of the ham
>equipment salespersons I've done business with, too. Does RS sell
>world-class equipment? Nope, but for what I buy there, I'm not interested in
>that level of performance. Bashing the Shack is kind of like it used to be
>on 75 meters when the old farts who'd had licenses since before Hiram Pedrcy
>Maxim was a pup used to sit around and whine and bitch about how the world
>was all going to hell because of those "kids" (most of whom were in their
>thirties and forties) getting licenses and transmitting in SSB. Can you say
>"fashionable" and "irrational"?
>
>----- Original Message -----
>From: "Andy Baracco" <[log in to unmask]>
>To: <[log in to unmask]>
>Sent: Wednesday, December 01, 2004 12:15 AM
>Subject: Re: weather radios
>
>
>i have shopped at Radio Shack for over 30 years, and have bought everything
>from talking watches to batteries to radios from them, and have never had a
>problem with anything I have gotten from them.
>
>Andy

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