>>> It turns out every one of these units stopped working sometime >>> Sunday and >>> they don't fully understand the cause or the fix as of yet. Good >>> news, I >>> don't have a malfunctioning unit. >> >> Funny, but to me, having the thing stop working qualifies as >> "malfunctioning". >> >> Just a thought. >> >> Tom Frank, KA2CDK >> > > "malfunctioning"? > Can it be said, if you have a task that you are being paid big > bucks an hour > to perform, and have to stop in the middle to go the little boys > room that > you are "malfunctioning"?
Nah, that would be more like recharging the batteries. A known and *expected* maintenance function. That can (sometimes :-)) be postponed until after important things are complete. Now if I went home and crawled into bed and stayed there indefinitely, that would be malfunctioning. There have been weeks where that might have been a better solution in all regards than working! But I digress. > A firmware update is a heck of a lot better than a "blown up" unit. True, but it's still a brick until that happens. Expected vs. unexpected. The scary thing is, the vendor could eventually say "sorry, we can't fix it, buy a new one". The ultimate malfunction, and you don't get two weeks notice... Tom Frank P.S. - no offense taken. _______________________________________________ time-nuts mailing list -- [email protected] To unsubscribe, go to https://www.febo.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/time-nuts and follow the instructions there.
