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Date: Sat, 23 Nov 2002 20:02:06 -0500
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From: "Hamid A. Wasti" <hwasti@starband.net>
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RWolf99@aol.com wrote:

>Hamid Wasti wrote "The plane had state of the art Terra radios, not ancient 
>Kings designed in the early 80's."
>
>Hamid - Don't know if you were being facetious or not.
>
I concluded the post with:

 > P.S.  Just to clarify so that no one misunderstands it, the above was
 > my impersonation of a good salesman; finding positives in situations
 > which may otherwise be considered negative.

I don't know how more explicit I can be in stating that I am playing the 
part of a sleazy salesman who will spin any situation with total 
disregard to the facts or the reality of the situation.  The reality of 
the situation is that I personally have a pair of KX155's in my current 
Mooney.  My previous Mooney had the same setup.  I would not trade them 
for a Terra, even if the Terra came free.

That said, I have had recurring problems with the radios.  But but they 
have all been traced to the tray/connector and not the radio itself. 
 The installation was done 2 owners ago and left quite a bit to be 
desired in terms of quality.  The upshot of my radio problems has been 
that I have learnt a lot from the poor installation and have implemented 
that knowledge in the design of the next generation of the Sierra Flight 
Systems tray & connector system.  Only time will tell how successful we 
have been.  The problem with making anything foolproof is that they are 
always coming up with smarter fools that can defeat any foolproof system.

>WE do a cost-benefit analysis, it's 'Honey, can 
>I buy a new radio?'"
>
Are you implying that us single people do not have to worry about the 
cost portion of the cost/bebefit analysis?

Regards,

Hamid