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From: brian@ucsd.EDU (Brian Kantor)
Newsgroups: sci.electronics,rec.ham-radio
Subject: Re: Low-power TV transmission
Keywords: TV low-power
Message-ID: <873@ucsd.EDU>
Date: 26 May 88 20:28:31 GMT
References: <17464@glacier.STANFORD.EDU>
Reply-To: brian@ucsd.edu (Brian Kantor)
Organization: The Avant-Garde of the Now, Ltd.
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In article <17464@glacier.STANFORD.EDU> (John B. Nagle) writes:
>     Any info about the following company, and their TV units?
>
>	P.C. Electronics
>	2522 S. Paxson Ln.
>	Arcadia  CA  91006
>	(818) 447 4565

When I called them they seemed to be a bunch of weird people.

Besides the "please wait while we look you up in the Callbook
to see if you're really a ham", they also INSISTED that I contact
a local ATVer before I order anything from them so that I'd be sure
to understand all about ham TV.

From this attitude I come to the conclusions:
	1. They're really not very interested in getting new people
	into the hobby.
	2. They're really not very interested in selling their stuff.
	3. I'll just have to wait a few years until the old farts with 
	this kind of attitude problem die off and do ham TV when I'm welcome.

If the people who developed and promoted packet radio treated people
this way, just how popular would packet be today?  Of course, packet was
a new technology, and ham TV isn't new at all, but I'm sure not
interested in ATV anything like I was before I called them.

Or maybe it was just a real bad day in Arcadia?

Why do you suppose they bother to advertise?  

	Brian Kantor	WB6CYT	UC San Diego   brian@ucsd.edu