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Lloyd Davies - Supreme TimeLORD March 2nd 05 12:17 AM

Does Bill Laterbach still sell the "Tiny-Tenna"
 
Bill, come on my show...

I'm even gonna give you a FREE AD on my next show!

Lloyd Davies, Supreme TimeLORD
Talk Show Host "On the Domestic Front"
Nim Buster of the year - 2004
http://www.network54.com/Forum/391414


[email protected] March 2nd 05 02:16 AM

Let us know when you're gonna interview him.

You should talk to Kind Jewish Indian and Sir Sidney, too.

Maybe have a reunion show with KT4TR and WB2OTK.


Burr March 2nd 05 02:49 AM

Alright,
He can come and talk about his great antenna and tell us about some of
the new thing he has coming out.

I bought one of his great little Tiny-Tenna and I am still using it. I
also got a great double YoYo antenna for my YB400 and it works great. It
lets me get an "L" in rooms or on a balcony when I am traveling.

Please be sure and let me know when he is going to be on, THANKS FOR
ASKING HIM!!!


--
Burr
I voted right, I voted Republican.
Long Live the Republican Party



"Lloyd Davies - Supreme TimeLORD" wrote in message
oups.com...
Bill, come on my show...

I'm even gonna give you a FREE AD on my next show!

Lloyd Davies, Supreme TimeLORD
Talk Show Host "On the Domestic Front"
Nim Buster of the year - 2004
http://www.network54.com/Forum/391414




[email protected] March 2nd 05 03:58 AM

Them tiny-tenna's aren't worth a ****! I own one and it didn't work
worth a damn for me.It is hanging on a hook in one of my closets right
now.Folks,take it from me,Don't waste your money on a tiny-tenna!
Anybody want to buy my tiny-tenna dirt cheap?
cuhulin


Lloyd Davies - Supreme TimeLORD March 2nd 05 04:18 AM

WATCH IT!

I AM A SUPREME TIMELORD NOW. And for making fun of the Tiny-Tenna, I
will send my Daleks to come and extermiante! You!

Got it?


[email protected] March 2nd 05 05:28 AM

You do that and I will sic my tiny-tuner on them too.I will sell my
tiny-tuner for $5.00 plus shipping and handling charges if anybody is
interested.I think I used it for about six or seven hours.By the
way,there is no such thing as time.Time does not exist.Think about it.
cuhulin


k35454 March 2nd 05 05:44 AM


"Lloyd Davies - Supreme TimeLORD" wrote in message
oups.com...
WATCH IT!

I AM A SUPREME TIMELORD NOW. And for making fun of the Tiny-Tenna, I
will send my Daleks to come and extermiante! You!

Got it?

... to come and do, what ??? k35454.



[email protected] March 2nd 05 06:05 AM

Why Did The Hysterectomy Channel Censor Facade Author Mike Heiser?
www.raidersnewsupdate.com
Yeah!,I realized about a year or so ago,the Hysterectomy hasen't been
getting a lot of things right.I suppose the Hysterectomy channel has
been ordered to suck up and kiss fed govts asseses or they are gone Bye
Bye!
cuhulin



RHF March 2nd 05 07:55 AM

LD,

[email protected] March 2nd 05 03:05 PM

Hey,I want to see Paris Hilton naked :{)
cuhulin


[email protected] March 2nd 05 05:28 PM


wrote:
By the
way,there is no such thing as time.Time does not exist.Think about

it.
cuhulin


I'd like to think about it, but if you're right then I don't have time!

Steve


john sumner March 2nd 05 06:39 PM


wrote in message
...
$19.95,for a Tiny-Tenna nowdays? If I remember,I paid about $9.95 for my
Tiny-Tenna about seven years ago and I still say those Tiny-Tennas are a
waste of money.
cuhulin

You are not the only one who felt that way, i think bill has a shoddy
product.



[email protected] March 2nd 05 06:50 PM

I wondered why all of a sudden we started getting so many TINYTENNA
orders all at once! That's all I've been working on today! Then
someone alerted me to the fact that another TT troll was on the loose
in RRS.

We've been very busy with the YO-YO-VEE's, as discussed in WorldRadio,
QST, CQ, etc. of late. So we haven't had too many TT orders until this
past week or so. That's why it surprised us so!

I guess any publicity is better than no publicity. Thanks everybody!

Don't forget about DX RADIO SCHOOL on WWCR. We're tucked in with some
nice company on Saturday nights: Glen Hauser, DX Party Line, Radio
Weather, Adam & George. Tune in! 5.070 megs at 11:30 pm Eastern. (Yes,
it airs at other times. But that's when the new editions begin.)

73....Bill Lauterbach - WA8MEA
Host, DX Radio School
Owner, DWM Communications
http://qth.com/dwm

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wrote:
$19.95,for a Tiny-Tenna nowdays? If I remember,I paid about $9.95 for

my
Tiny-Tenna about seven years ago and I still say those Tiny-Tennas

are a
waste of money.
cuhulin



[email protected] March 2nd 05 08:55 PM

Send me a little box with prepaid postage from me to you and I will let
y'all send me a Tiny-Tuner (with prepaid postage) that MIGHT work this
time.It is like brand new,only has about six hours of use on it.What's
the matter? Don't y'all gurantee them Tiny-Tuners to work?
cuhulin


[email protected] March 2nd 05 09:49 PM

Whatcha usin' dem dare TT's on, CuHu.....Cougar radios? Maybe a Bell &
Howell? Tried to tell ya'll dey wouldn't werk vary gud on dem dare
cheep radidios.

I'll give yoo a mucho better deal, CuHu. Yoo send it back...and I wil
sent you a bran knew YO-YO-TENNA Dipole. Sound grate to yoo, CuHu???
Dat way, wen u git a passive antenna with no elektronik parts, you wil
know it has bein yer radidio dat has had da problem. (Just remember to
tell me what type of external antenna jack you have on your radio....)

Have a good one guys. (And gals!)

Speaking of gals, has anyone heard from Brenda Ann? I know the last
place she was stationed at. But wondered if she was still able to take
part in RRS. If you hear from her, tell her God Bless from the US of A
and thank her from all of us for her service to our country.

73, Bill - WA8MEA
DWM Communications - http://qth.com/dwm


[email protected] March 3rd 05 12:20 AM

I tried out my Tiny-Tenna on my Panasonic AM/FM/Shortwave radio and my
GE AM/FM long distance radio and my Sears Wavfarer AM/FM/Shortwave radio
and some of my other radios too and my Tiny-Tenna made absolutely no
difference at all helping to pick up long distance radio stations
regardless of which radios I tried it on or regardless of which radio
stations I was tuning in.Why doesn't Tiny-Tenna stand behind their
products? It could be Tiny-Tenna sent me a new defective product,things
like that do happen sometimes.I am not and I will not spend so much as
one red cent on another Tiny-Tenna anything,I struck out twice at ccrane
company.I once drove a truck many years ago for an auto parts dealer
company delivering parts all over town and once in a while a part was
new defective.And the name is,cuhulin (CATTLE RAID OF COOLEY,over 700
years ago in Ireland.Look it up)
cuhulin


[email protected] March 3rd 05 12:22 AM

I bet those Bell & Howell radios have better antennas than Tiny-Tenna
has.
cuhulin


[email protected] March 3rd 05 12:29 AM

Speaking of gals??? I am looking for a rich old widow woman.If you see
one,send her on over here to me in Jackson,Mississippi.
cuhulin


[email protected] March 3rd 05 01:35 AM

Yep....sounds like a fine, group of quality radios there, CuHu(lin).

My offer still stands. One of my more expensive, passive dipole
antennas...for the TT.

Struck out at C. Crane too? Gee....you seem to have a lot of problems
with dealers. Hmmmmmm.

In spite of all of your antenna & reception problems, I hope you have a
fine night....

(BTW....your usenet "handle" is coming up CuHu through the Google
newsreader. Nothing personal, mind you.)

73, Bill - WA8MEA
DWM Communications - http://qth.com/dwm


Telamon March 3rd 05 03:17 AM

In article .com,
" wrote:

I wondered why all of a sudden we started getting so many TINYTENNA
orders all at once! That's all I've been working on today! Then
someone alerted me to the fact that another TT troll was on the loose
in RRS.


Snip

Yes, some people are just to dim to put him in the kill file.

I think you should share the profit you are making from the Trolling in
the news group since everyone reading the it has to put up with it. You
should be paying for your advertising.

Let me know when the check is coming.

--
Telamon
Ventura, California

[email protected] March 3rd 05 03:53 AM

OK,you have a fine night too.But I will never buy anything from your
company ever again.Good Night now,sleep tight,don't let the bed bugs
bite.I know it gets very cold over there in Michigan.y'all stay warm
now.
cuhulin


[email protected] March 3rd 05 03:57 AM

Yeah,I want my check too.Since I helped you sell more of them
Tiny-Tuna,, oooops,Tiny-Tuna Tennas.Two bits worth of parts and $19.95
per,Gee,I need to find me a racket like that.
cuhulin


[email protected] March 3rd 05 05:15 AM

Here is some information on my big time super duper works on most all
radios and reallyyyyyyy yanks in them radio stations from far and wide
from all four corners of the World.(but it doesn't work at all for me
and it never did the day it got here) A piece of Radio Shack (because it
says so on my Tiny-Tenna that I own and it never did work at all for me)
plastic circuit board measuring one and three quarter inches square.A
little black thingy which looks kind of like a transistor to me,,,,,,
(let me go get my magnafying glass,,,,,,,) I see a very tiny little
brown colored round thingy (I don't know what it is) standing up,about
three sixteenths diameter,it looks sort of like one of those smilies we
have all seen on the internet before.I see two tiny little round sort of
long thingys with four different colored skinny bands around both of
those thingys and both thingys are laying on on the piece of Radio Shack
plastic circuit board and they look like twins.A metal U shaped bracket
that holds a nine volt battey.Coming up out of the bottom of the Radio
Shack plastic circuit board is a two strand wire with a clip connector
the nine volt battery snaps onto,one of the wires is red,the other one
is black and coming up from the top of the Radio Shack plastic circuit
board that two strand wire nine volt battery connector wire thingy
meaures five and a half inches long.Another two strand wire,one of the
wires is red,the other wire is green and the two strand wire has a plug
on the end of it for plugging into a radio antenna jack,the wire/plug
assembly measures from the top of the Radio Shack plastic circuit board
seven and a quarter inches long.OK,I am fixin to wrap the long
Tiny-Tenna antenna wire that comes up from the Radio Shack plastic
circuit board around end for end around my plastic one foot long ruler
and I am going to try to give y'all a halfassed accurate guesstimate of
how long that antenna wire that has the Alligator clip on it is,,,,
Stand By,,,,,,,,,, Go take a **** break if y'all need to,,,,,,,, it
measures about seven and a half feet long,But I did say that is a
guesstimate.Yes folks,two bits worth of Radio Shack parts and sell it
for $19.95 plus $5.95 shipping & handling and y'all can get rich too!
What a Life! I have to watch the North by Northwest movie on tb now.
cuhulin


[email protected] March 3rd 05 05:30 AM

Those two twin round thingys I talked about on my,IT DOES NOT WORK AND
IT NEVER DID WORK Tiny-Tenna,are Resistors.I was just now fumbling
around in one of my junk boxes for something and I discoverd a package
of five (count em,five) Radio Shack 2.2k-Ohm Resistors for something I
was going to build a couple of years ago.Radio Shack,Part Number
271-1325. Pkg.of 5. 2.2k Ohm Resistors.Now,if only I can remember what
it was I was going to build!
cuhulin


[email protected] March 3rd 05 05:31 AM

The parts,or some of them,are made in China.Anybody want to buy some
Chinese Popcorn?
cuhulin


[email protected] March 3rd 05 05:34 AM

Fool Me Once,Shame On You,Fool Me Twice,Shame On Me!
cuhulin


m II March 3rd 05 06:15 AM

wrote:

Fool Me Once,Shame On You,Fool Me Twice,Shame On Me!


That proves it. You're smarter that the President.




mike

[email protected] March 3rd 05 06:36 AM

I already knew that.I was smarter and I still am smarter than the prez
and all prezes the minute I was born.
cuhulin


Burr Patterson, Jr. March 3rd 05 06:43 AM



wrote:
Yeah,I want my check too.Since I helped you sell more of them
Tiny-Tuna,, oooops,Tiny-Tuna Tennas.Two bits worth of parts and $19.95
per,Gee,I need to find me a racket like that.
cuhulin

Something you need to think about!!!!

To stay in business with your doors open you got to make money!!!!!! I
charge 200% minimum and a a hundred dollars and hour for my labor. So
you don't like what I make, BUY ME OUT, it's your and you charge what
you want!!!!

Until then don't take about profit that someone makes from working. I
have never missed a day to work in my life and I don't remember being late.

Burr


[email protected] March 3rd 05 08:24 AM

I missed a month off work in 1969,gall bladder operation.I have never in
my life ever been late for work,not even once.I worked in factories and
I drove a bread truck for Sunbeam Bakery (Koestler's Sunbeam
Bakery,Vickburg,Mississippi) and I worked at Delta Cotton Oil
company.Three years (RA,Regular Army) in U.S.Army.Before all of that,I
had odd jobs such as working at a gas station,a paper route,mowing
yards,ectera.
cuhulin


[email protected] March 3rd 05 08:34 AM

Something Tiny-Tenna needs to think about is making Antennas that
actually do work and perform as to their wild outrageous
claims.Remember,I bought one of those Tiny-Tennas and it did not work at
all.
cuhulin



[email protected] March 3rd 05 08:35 AM

Let ME interview him.
cuhulin


[email protected] March 3rd 05 01:34 PM

Oh gee whiz, Cuhu. I see your problem now: You write backwards....so
you probably hooked up your battery backwards! Which reminds me....I
had an Air Force pilot call me once and leave a message. He didn't
know what a 9 volt battery was or how to "install" it!

That's frightening, when you think of people like this defending our
country.....

I like you Cuhu. You're much funnier than some of the others in here
in years past. What's the name of your trailor park?

73, Bill - WA8MEA
DWM Communications - http://qth.com/dwm


[email protected] March 3rd 05 01:51 PM

Oh, Burr....most of the trolling morons in here have NO concept of what
it COSTS to operate a small business in America. Not even a part-time
business like ours. The taxes, the overhead. Your utility companies
like phone, electric, heat, all charge you a higher rate because you're
special....you're a BUSINESS.

They see someone who takes $9 worth of parts and thinks he's making a
$10 profit. They can't even imagine the other costs involved. But for
some reason it's "evil" for an American to do this. But when it comes
to a $19 product from Wal-Mart made by Chinese slave labor, well that's
OK!

Then there are the cigarettes, lottery tickets and beer that many
trollers in these groups think nothing of wasting $19 on.

In the words of W4JYZ...."It's so sad....so, so sad....."

73, Bill - WA8MEA
DWM Communications - http://qth.com/dwm


[email protected] March 3rd 05 01:56 PM

Actually, you have to send me a check, Telly. There is no profit in
what I do. In fact, there are more losses than anything. If we break
even, it's a good year.

It's just a part-time cottage industry that I enjoy doing to help swl's
and hams. Nothing more, nothing less.

Let me know when you send it....

73, Bill - WA8MEA
DWM Communications - http://qth.com/dwm


[email protected] March 3rd 05 02:13 PM

Always blame the antenna....NEVER the radio. A good policy.

Again....put your money where your mouth is. I will GIVE you a FREE
passive dipole antenna to prove you wrong. Why won't you take me up on
the offer? In fact....keep the TT. Just tell me where to send the
antenna, and what plug I should use for the antenna.

You doth protest too much. I'm beginning to think you're the fella we
discussed on DX Radio School. The fella who also bought the
Justice(sp?) Antenna from C. Crane and claimed that was junk, too????
Is every antenna you buy from every dealer junk???

I'd like to have you on my show. You seem to be THE EXPERT on
shortwave radio. Can we call you for tomorrow's taping???

73, Bill - WA8MEA (No expert....just an amateur....)
DX Radio School
(For times and freqs, please visit: http://www.wwcr.com)


[email protected] March 3rd 05 05:04 PM

I have never bought or used a Justice antenna before.I used to listen
Chuck Harder www.forthepeople.org www.chuckharder.com on my
radios.I have listened to his radio talk show for more than twenty
years.He used to be on an AM radio station in this area,either WJNT or
WMPQ,I don't remember which station now.Then he went to Shortwave
radio,then to satellite.One of the reasons I am going to buy myself a
Lyngsat satellite set top box with the dish and hand held remote control
in two months is so I can pick up his programs again and there are many
other free to air tv and radio programs on Lyngsat too.I used to hear
Bill Laterbach's radio commercials about Tiny-Tenna on Chuck Harder's
radio talk show.One day I decided to buy one of those Tiny-Tennas,so I
placed my order.I was believing those radio commercials about the
Tiny-Tenna too.When it got here,I followed the instructions exactly.I
installed a fresh 9 volt battery and I tried my Tiny-Tenna out on some
of my radios.I couldn't hear any difference whatsoever.Either my
Tiny-Tenna was defective when my Tiny-Tenna got here or those claims
they make about the Tiny-Tenna are pure hogwash.Of course I know how to
properly install a 9 volt battery.I have been useing 9 volt batteries in
various things since back in the 1950's.Trailer trash,you say.I have
never lived in a trailer before and I say it is wrong to say folks who
live in trailers are trailer trash.Why don't you go visit some folks who
do live in trailers? Why don't you go visit some folks who live in
regular houses? Why don't you go visit some folks who live in apartments
and hotels? Boy!,I sure was expecting my Tiny-Tenna to at least do
something,I wasen't expecting miracles though.I wonder how many of the
parts Tiny-Tenna uses to make those Tiny-Tennas are made in China? Look
at the things you own,where were they manufactured? Look around in the
stores,look at clothing articles that say,Made In U.S.A.Sure,perhaps the
name tags on some of the clothing articles are Made In U.S.A.but where
was the rest of the clothing article made/manufactured? Every one of my
old eight vehicles I own was manufactured right here in U.S.A.My oldest
vehicle dates from 1914,my newest vehicle dates from
1986.Fords,Chevrolets,and two old Jeeps,1942 Willys World War Two
Jeep,1948 Willys Civilian Jeep and one Dodge vehicle that dates from
1978.I try to buy products manufactured here in U.S.A.whenever
possible,but that is getting harder and harder to do as time goes
by.What was the latest product/items you bought,today or yesterday or
the day before? Where was it or they made/manufactured? What Country(s)?
In China? I do not like buying products manufactured in China,but how
can us Americans do otherwise? You Tell Me! I just now took another look
at the package of five resistors I bought from a Radio Shack store a
couple of years ago.Made in China for Radio Shack.A Division of Tandy
Corp,it says right there on the package.I Love America as much as
anybody else.I believe in America and American Capitalism.fed govt is
selling us down the River more and more every day! You build a
Tiny-Tenna that actually works and performs as you say it does and you
test that particular Tiny-Tenna yourself and you send it to me and if
does actually work as you say it will,I will tell the World,I will help
you sell more Tiny-Tennas.Keep the power adapter/wall wart,as they say.I
got "took" on my Tiny-Tenna I bought from you,I am not going to send
money and get "took" again.
cuhulin


[email protected] March 3rd 05 06:16 PM

I was just now thinking.I think my Tiny-Tenna would make a good Fishing
Lure.All I would have to do is tag a Fishing Hook on there,it already
has a line on it about seven and a half feet long.BassPro is building a
new BassPro store just across the Pearl River from Jackson by a Lake
over there in Pearl,Mississippi and folks driving along I-20 over there
will be able to see the BassPro store and that will help drag in more
customers for BassPro and about a year or so ago I read in the Clarion
Ledger www.clarionledger.com the Atlanta A's are going to move to
Pearl.There is a new Baseball Stadium being built in Pearl or so I
heard.Yeah,I can get over there and show them folks how good my
Tiny-Tenna Fishing Lure works.It would make a neat unique and ufonious
Christmas Tree Ornament too.Heck,I might as well get some kind of use
from my Tiny-Tenna,after all,I paid about $10.00 plus shipping and
handling charges for it about seven something years ago.Come on
folks,1001 uses for Tiny-Tennas? I am fixin to go over to the Goodwill
thrift store in about an hour to see what kind of junk is over there I
don't need,there might be Tiny-Tenna over there too.Drinking? I buy a
sixpack of Bud Light when I go to the food store once a week.Last
Wednesday about a week ago was the last time I went to the food store so
as soon as I check out the Goodwill thrift store this afternoon,I will
go on over to the food store too.I haven't had a drink since Tuesday
night,so I know I am sober.I never drink and drive.Nawwwwww dude,I am
not going to be on any of your radio shows for love or money.
cuhulin


[email protected] March 3rd 05 06:20 PM

You never read where I have ever blamed any Antennas on anything.I was
blaming my Tiny-Tenna which has proved to me years ago is not a real
Antenna or even a pretender to being a real Antenna at all.
cuhulin


[email protected] March 3rd 05 07:21 PM

(I'm so sorry folks.....but I CANNOT resist.....)

Hey! CuHu!!

DO NOT plug the 3.5 mm jack INTO the earphone jack. That IS NOT where
the TT jack is suppose to go! That's why your TT won't work! You are
cutting off the sound! You put the TT in the ANTENNA jack! OK???
Good....

(Somebody actually did this once. I kid you not! And then you wonder
why Customer Service reps at your cable TV, sat TV, phone company talk
down to you? Cuz people can be just dumber than rocks!)

73, Bill - WA8MEA

----------------------------------------------------



wrote:
You never read where I have ever blamed any Antennas on anything.I

was
blaming my Tiny-Tenna which has proved to me years ago is not a real
Antenna or even a pretender to being a real Antenna at all.
cuhulin




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