Today's trial lawyers are not sleeping dogs but hungry predators. You let them rest and you will be their next meal. You see their ads on TV every hour willing to litigate on everything imaginable. Who pays for this? We do...the consumer gets intercoursed so trial lawyers get rich and famous. Now lets ratchet back to the 50's and 60's when two superb individuals, both were hams, and both were in the same business making broadcast transmitters and also selling systems to the military. They were competitors, both in the Midwest with operations a few hundred miles apart. I knew both well (my office was just across the hall from one of them (Parker Gates) in Quincy, Illinois and the other Art Collins I new when I lived down the road from Cedar Rapids in Iowa City where I was first licensed in 1954. On Saturday mornings Art Collins would open up his warehouse and sell first class comopnents to hams for next to nothing like 4CX250B's for a quarter if they had a bent fin or any other cosmetic imperfection. They would never ever think of suing each other for "patent infringement" and only argued over a round of golf at the club house.
What ever happened to this wonderful Midwestern ethic of friendship and trust? These were two giants in the radio industry who never fought brutal wars like Thomas Edison and Nicoli Tesla or engaged in the corporate warfare that caused Major Edwin Armstrong (inventor of FM Radio) to jump from a NYC high rise because David Sarnoff had political friends that for a time blocking his wonderful inventions. The big three out of Detroit did the same thing to automotive genius Preston Tucker using political power to squash a better idea in building cars. Like they say when "elephants fight the grass gets trampled" and in our case we all lose and we all have to pay in some manner for this corporate warfare. What a shame. Herb Schoenbohm, KV4FZ On 5/31/2012 6:54 PM, W0UCE wrote: > Hi-Z is IN BUSINESS it is so simple to understand - why beat any reason or > announcements to death? > > Let sleeping dogs rest. > > > > -----Original Message----- > From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] > On Behalf Of Guy Olinger K2AV > Sent: Thursday, May 31, 2012 4:54 PM > To: Anthony Scandurra > Cc: [email protected]; Larry Emery > Subject: Re: Topband: HI-Z BACK IN BUSINESS > > They put that up during the day today. 73, Guy. > > On Thu, May 31, 2012 at 3:33 PM, Anthony Scandurra<[email protected]> wrote: > >> From the Hi-Z Antennas site... >> >> *The Hi-Z 4, Hi-Z 8N, and the Hi-Z 8W products are being sold as >> permitted under the terms of a* >> >> *certain License Agreement among PDS Electronics, Inc. dba DX >> Engineering, as the Licensor,* >> >> *and Hi-Z Antennas and Lee Strahan, as the Licensees.* >> >> On Thu, May 31, 2012 at 3:30 PM, Anthony Scandurra<[email protected]> wrote: >> >>> In fact, they have changed it. >>> >>> And there are now some notes on the product pages indicating that they >>> have a licensing agreement with PDS (aka DX Engineering). >>> >>> 73, Tony >>> >>> >>> On Thu, May 31, 2012 at 11:05 AM, Guy Olinger K2AV<[email protected] >>>> wrote: >>>> They have not removed the "Legal Troubles" banner from their web page >>>> yet. >>>> >>>> 73, Guy >>>> >>>> On Thu, May 31, 2012 at 10:58 AM, Larry Emery<[email protected]> wrote: >>>> >>>>> According to the latest Newsletter dated May30 2012 Hi-Z is back in >>>>> business >>>>> for good and taking orders! FB Guys.. Good luck in your venture! >>>>> >>>>> 73 >>>>> Larry K1UO >>>>> >>>>> _______________________________________________ >>>>> UR RST IS ... ... ..9 QSB QSB - hw? BK >>>>> >>>> _______________________________________________ >>>> UR RST IS ... ... ..9 QSB QSB - hw? BK >>>> >>> > _______________________________________________ > UR RST IS ... ... ..9 QSB QSB - hw? BK > > _______________________________________________ > UR RST IS ... ... ..9 QSB QSB - hw? BK _______________________________________________ UR RST IS ... ... ..9 QSB QSB - hw? BK
