JT65 Fun

Despite bad band conditions as in a previous post I never trust the internet when it comes to band conditions. This past week the phone bands have been terrible but I did try JT65. Monday I made a contact to Hawaii on JT65 and then Tuesday in the opposite direction a contact to Wales. Not bad for the current Solar Conditions.

I'm Back

After being away for quite some time I plan to post regularly again. The big news for this month and possibly the year is Amateur Electronic is going out of business. Unfortunately to me they had discontinued services that kept me as a loyal customer.

• The stopped taking equipment in on trade or if they did it was few and far a part
• They stopped having in house repairs, even though they had a large back log to support it.
• They stopped sending catalogs out, I always felt when they stopped sending out paper catalogs they could have e-mailed e-catalogs. The only way you saw a catalog ( at least for me was go to their website. )
• When visiting the store it seemed to me they were trying to push me out the door. Yes I had an order waiting but looking around inside the store looking at stuff always had ne walking out with more than I planes to buy.

Most of the guys there had good customer service qualities and would take the time to read your emails about a product or your idea and make suggestions so you didn't buy something you didn't need. They stopped going to hamfests, donating to hamfests and lastly their prices were a bit high.

                     One thing I must share that AES had no control over was I ordered a few antenna adapters for my H.T's of course they always gave you tracking numbers. In this case they were coming by U.S. mail. I thought I would have them in a day or 2. Just by chance I checked the tracking and my adapters were in Pa. uhh Toledo is West of AES what are they doing in Pa? From Pa. they went to Cleveland then eventually found their way here. To this very day I still cannot understand why they went to Pa. My final thoughts back then " Next time pick them ip in person "

                                                                     73's