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Posted on: August 14, 2018 at 19:11:30 CT
Tigrrrr! MU
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They were producing 800 MHz portable radios with their own brand of antennas. The antenna was an "elevated feed" with the active 1/4 wave part of the antenna about 4" above the screw in connector. The antenna was fragile and would fall apart if you pulled on it.

Our solution was to get a 1/2 wave antenna from Centurion (in Lincoln, NE), do a warranty claim on the original antenna and send it back to them with an RMA, and end up with a much better antenna.

Our regional rep was also a rep for Centurion and he was pushing to get the Centurion antenna shipped as an OEM product...he would make rep commissions on both ends of this deal.

So we are at a trade show and our rep is trying to explain to the Japanese in attendance what was wrong with their antenna. He pretty much calls it like it is and the Japanese cluster off in a corner to speak to each other and figure out the issues. These are other Japanese who have not spent a lot of time here, so their English isn't good.

One approaches "Excuse....Curry-san. What is 'piece of shìt?'".

He grabs a radio off the display and pulls the antenna, which comes apart in his hands.

"This. This is a piece of shìt."


Back to the kibbutz go all the Japanese.


Centurion, btw, had a lot of design patents on two way radio antennas and MANY of the cellular antennas (all internal to the phones). The owner, Gary Kuck, was approached by folks a few years ago and sold the company for millions.

And it all started as a cottage industry..."Curry-san" used to sit in Gary Kuck's kitchen curing PVC rubber ducks in the oven while having beers.

Had a 25th anniversary party at one of our trade shows. The Temptations were the performers. It was great.

Edited by Tigrrrr! at 19:12:51 on 08/14/18
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     It's because she's black, isn't it? - Tigrrrr! MU - 8/14 18:29:57
          Im getting Negro fatigue, Can we talk about Asians instead? - Uncle Fester USMC - 8/14 18:37:48
               My best Asian story... - Tigrrrr! MU - 8/14 18:48:36
                    Another good one... - Tigrrrr! MU - 8/14 19:11:30
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          Nobody on the left is concerned with debating - Sal KC - 8/14 18:17:08
     Yes(nm) - tcat UMKC - 8/14 18:08:07
          Figures. But then...what ISN'T racist today/(nm) - GA Tiger MU - 8/14 18:09:46




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