"Frank Dresser" wrote in message

I read the linked web page and it says:

"Earlier in the year 2003, we made the mistake of taking seriously some
very enthusiastic posts on rec.radio.shortwave -- "the trailer-park
shortwave newsgroup" according to one of our acquaintances -- by
dim-wits who were overjoyed with a ten-dollar multiband radio with the
unexpected brand name "Bell & Howell""

"dim-wits"? "the trailer-park shortwave newsgroup" ?

Who is the *real* dimwit here? You would have to be the original
dimwit to really expect a $10 radio to actually be very useful. Good
grief...I've never seen one, even the picture, and I know it sucks
just from the description. They DO NOT build good shortwave radios and
sell them for $10. I have to good sense not to believe
otherwise...Mamma didn't raise no "trailer park" fool.




The page's insults and cheap shots on cheap radios continue:

"clipped from that site"...
If someone posts an enthusiastic comment about one particular brand of
sw radio or scanner, this is immediately "rebutted" (allegedly) by
those who disagree. This is, as I state in my Icom articles, a futile
act. Everyone is entitled to the enjoyment of the hobby and to
appreciate his or her own radio. By telling an enthusiast that his
"radio is bad" or that his or her taste is faulty, nothing positive is
accomplished....

OK, let me get this right...He's complaining because no one would say
the B@H was a piece of dime store junk, but now he's complaining
because some might or did in other cases with other brand
radios...Hell, I think most all portables are basically junk. I've
never seen one that was really worth a hoot for anything serious. I
wouldn't buy any of them. That's my opinion, and I'm sticking to it. I
don't care if I'm chased out of this house, and forced to a trailer
park to live next door to the guy that wrote that web page. Normally,
I never comment on specific radios, unless it's a question on own I
actually own. I realize not all people need radios that cost several
hundred dollars or more to listen to VOA or whatever. I don't normally
comment on other peoples radios, unless they start developing
incorrect delusions regarding some aspect of it's performance, and
even that is rare. I know the B@H would be useless to me, but there is
no point on raining on someone elses parade just to act radio
snobbish. That's why I never add to threads like that. If the poster
likes the thing, more power to him. He's certainly a lot less lighter
in the pocket than I am with my various models. MK