Frank Gilliland wrote:
Several years ago I came across this old guy up in Mead (a small town
just North of here). He had amassed a HUGE amount of very cool stuff
in a warehouse; just about everything electronic to the mundane to the
riduculous. Piles of electrolytic caps almost as big as your head,
55-gallon drums loaded with old tubes, shelves stacked to the roof
with radios and test equipment from antique to modern, 50-cubes filled
with circuit boards and assemblies, etc, etc, etc. He even had an old
portable BC station in a van, complete with an AN/FRT-39 and a 40hp
diesel generator. Very cool stuff. Every time I showed up he was open
for business...... but would never sell anything! You see, someone had
given him this stupid book that told how to make money from the scrap
metals in electronics. So every time I walked in the door there was
the old man in his wheelchair, smashing transmitter and big old audio
power tubes for a few micrograms of thorium, crushing and desoldering
RF power transistors and vintage chips for maybe a penny's worth of
gold, and all the while bumming smokes from me. Eventually I started
to feel sorry for the fart so I explained that most of the stuff was
worth a hell of a lot more if left intact. I even offered to put some
of the stuff on ebay to prove it to him, but he couldn't shake the
thought that it might have gold in it. Going with that, and having
worked at Johnson-Matthey, I explained that the gold-plated chip lids
didn't have nearly as much gold as the solder that held them on. But
he wouldn't hear of such a thing because the lids were gold and the
solder was white. You couldn't talk sense to the guy because he firmly
believed that he was going to get rich from the info in that idiotic
book. After a few more visits I finally gave up. A couple years later
the building and its contents were condemned in order to make way for
the new freeway. A month later I picked up the van at a county auction
for $200. Just a short time after that he died, alone and broke, in a
nursing home. What a waste. And all because he allowed himself to be
locked him into a mindset of greed that shut out the advice of anyone
else, refusing to see all the wealth he really had, focusing only on
the glitter.

Maybe you're smart enough to learn something from that, Brian. Or
maybe you're not. Only time will tell.

Although this story is touching... I don't see why your telling it to
me. You seem to fault this man for not listening to you.
You are really full of yourself (and other things).
Is it so surprising that I'm not the only one that doesn't listen to
you... LOL

www.telstar-electronics.com

On 14 Jan 2007 17:26:53 -0800, "Telstar Electronics"
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Frank Gilliland wrote:
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Maybe you're smart enough to learn something from that, Brian. Or
maybe you're not. Only time will tell.

Although this story is touching... I don't see why your telling it to
me. You seem to fault this man for not listening to you.


Clearly I overestimated your reading comprehension. To summarize, the
old man died miserably and I ended up with a 5kW HF transmitter
station. I feel sorry for the guy, but do you think I'm complaining
about it?


You are really full of yourself (and other things).


True. But that doesn't diminish the fact that an obsession can make a
person irrational. The old man got obsessed about the gold and forgot
about the underlying motivation. Likewise, you are so obsessed about
defending your facade of credibility that you reject any advice, from
me and a lot of others in this group, that could legitimize your
credentials.

Put more simply, your "hack-&-quack" business plan is doomed to fail.


Is it so surprising that I'm not the only one that doesn't listen to
you... LOL


Your response to my post is prima facie to the contrary, just as your
continued spamming of the group is proof that your "products" are
junk. You've taken my advice before -- take it again now.

Frank Gilliland wrote:
Put more simply, your "hack-&-quack" business plan is doomed to fail.

You seemed to be preoccupied with me failing. Why don't you let me
worry about that. So far... it hasn't happened... and my business is
doing fine. You might want to try and review your own life instead of
everybody elses.

www.telstar-electronics.com

On 15 Jan 2007 18:01:55 -0800, "Telstar Electronics"
wrote in
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Frank Gilliland wrote:
Put more simply, your "hack-&-quack" business plan is doomed to fail.

You seemed to be preoccupied with me failing. Why don't you let me
worry about that. So far... it hasn't happened... and my business is
doing fine.


Uh-huh.


You might want to try and review your own life instead of
everybody elses.


Not "everybody elses" life, Brian.

Your business became my business because of all the techno-BS you
throw around in here with your spam. I figured that it would be much
better if you could actually learn something and provide -useful- and
-accurate- technical advice instead of half-baked misconceptions about
amplifier classes, linearity, modulation, etc, etc. It would be good
for your business and it would be good for the group -- a win-win
scenario. I can't fathom why you, in your apparent desire to build and
grow a successful business, can't see the obvious benefits to such an
approach. Instead, you engage your critics by shoveling more BS on top
of your original piles. You've been doing it in here for ten years and
it just doesn't make sense. That is, unless you're just a hack.

If you're a -real- electronics engineer then let's see the schematic
for your amp. If not then don't expect me or anyone else to cut you
any slack as long as you continue to spam your crap and shovel your BS
in this group. Fair enough?

Frank Gilliland wrote:
Your business became my business because of all the techno-BS you
throw around in here with your spam. I figured that it would be much
better if you could actually learn something and provide -useful- and
-accurate- technical advice instead of half-baked misconceptions about
amplifier classes, linearity, modulation, etc, etc. It would be good
for your business and it would be good for the group -- a win-win
scenario. I can't fathom why you, in your apparent desire to build and
grow a successful business, can't see the obvious benefits to such an
approach. Instead, you engage your critics by shoveling more BS on top
of your original piles. You've been doing it in here for ten years and
it just doesn't make sense. That is, unless you're just a hack.

If you're a -real- electronics engineer then let's see the schematic
for your amp. If not then don't expect me or anyone else to cut you
any slack as long as you continue to spam your crap and shovel your BS
in this group. Fair enough?

Frank, I will continue to post for another ten years... maybe
longer...LOL... despite your harassment. Actually, it seems good for
business. My customers often comment on your ridiculous attacks.

www.telstar-electronics.com

On 16 Jan 2007 02:56:51 -0800, "Telstar Electronics"
wrote in
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Frank Gilliland wrote:
Your business became my business because of all the techno-BS you
throw around in here with your spam. I figured that it would be much
better if you could actually learn something and provide -useful- and
-accurate- technical advice instead of half-baked misconceptions about
amplifier classes, linearity, modulation, etc, etc. It would be good
for your business and it would be good for the group -- a win-win
scenario. I can't fathom why you, in your apparent desire to build and
grow a successful business, can't see the obvious benefits to such an
approach. Instead, you engage your critics by shoveling more BS on top
of your original piles. You've been doing it in here for ten years and
it just doesn't make sense. That is, unless you're just a hack.

If you're a -real- electronics engineer then let's see the schematic
for your amp. If not then don't expect me or anyone else to cut you
any slack as long as you continue to spam your crap and shovel your BS
in this group. Fair enough?

Frank, I will continue to post for another ten years... maybe
longer...LOL... despite your harassment.


Fine with me. You're only hurting yourself.


Actually, it seems good for
business. My customers often comment on your ridiculous attacks.


Uh-huh. You bet, Brian. It's not like your customers can't google your
incompetent ramblings in the archives. Kinda makes you wonder how many
potential customers you -lost- with your technical hocus-pocus, such
as your three square-foot ground plane fiasco. I'll bet -both- of your
customers laughed their asses off with that one..... I know I did!!!

Frank Gilliland wrote:
Uh-huh. You bet, Brian. It's not like your customers can't google your
incompetent ramblings in the archives. Kinda makes you wonder how many
potential customers you -lost- with your technical hocus-pocus, such
as your three square-foot ground plane fiasco. I'll bet -both- of your
customers laughed their asses off with that one..... I know I did!!!

Frank, you're an old man peering through the NG window... constantly
monitoring what everyone is doing... and in everybody elses business.
Gramps... get a life... LOL

www.telstar-electronics.com