Re: Desense is driving me crazy
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Interesting anecdote, Harold...I met Jim at Sinc. in Aurora in 1990. I was visiting the area and decided to drop in to see if I could buy 4 invar rods. The front desk paged Jim and he took me to a small meeting room whereby he commenced to give me a detailed tutorial on the Q201 duplexer complete with some graphs that he hand drew as I watched. We also talked about the 210 Series of antennas and he gave me some "shop" drawings on the construction of the loop, and some documents watermarked "Training Docs". I still have all these documents today.
At the end, he told me that because of Sinclair's somewhat unique order and billing system -that could not accept a point-of-sale entry- he would be unable to sell me the rods...so "I'll just have to give them to you". Jim was quite welcoming and our meeting was not at all rushed.
Larry
On Sun, May 25, 2025 at 5:08?PM Harold Farrenkopf via <hfarrenkopf= [email protected]> wrote: ¡°Whats odd is I've heard several stories about how Hams have got help from Sinclair & they were happy to help out. One fella told me he talked to a Mr. Sinclair about some duplexers years back. Idk if that's true or not but it sounded nice.¡°
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That was the past¡.? Dr. George Sinclair was a ham .? I was there 1988 to 1991 and 2000 to 2001.? I returned the second time and was given verbal assurance and promises that I could continue doing my own consulting on the side but when I did, they didn¡¯t like it and I got let go (with adequate severance). They lost their ham friendly attitude when the hams left and when the company was sold. I know I helped many hams during my time and they used to get 25% off list prices.?
They replaced me (a professional engineer) with someone taking some online Phoenix courses in electronics that said he¡¯d be an engineer but he never completed it but continued on in that role. He also called himself an engineer which is illegal in Canada. ?
Things really changed there when George died in the ?mid 90s.?
Jim Morrison was also a great asset to hams. I bought my first duplexer from him in 1983 at a local ham flea market.? He taught me everything I know about filters when I started there¡.
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