N3QO » AES http://n3qo.com Wed, 11 Apr 2012 14:38:17 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.2 Dayton Hamvention 2010 http://n3qo.com/archives/831 http://n3qo.com/archives/831#comments Mon, 17 May 2010 14:06:05 +0000 jeff http://n3qo.com/?p=831 Continue reading →]]> This past weekend I had the chance to make it out to Dayton, OH for Hamvention 2010. Dayton turned out to be a blast! I was able to find the Dentron MT-3000A tuner I’ve been looking for as well as found a hardly used Icom 91AD handheld. Meeting the vendors face to face was great until I encountered AES, which I will explain in another post. I heard that turnout was better than the past few years and just when I thought we had seen it all, there was yet another room to explore. Enjoy some photos.
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]]> http://n3qo.com/archives/831/feed 0 Take AES off the list. http://n3qo.com/archives/833 http://n3qo.com/archives/833#comments Mon, 17 May 2010 13:45:44 +0000 jeff http://n3qo.com/?p=833 Continue reading →]]> While at Dayton this weekend, I picked up an Icom T90A from the AES table. After thinking about it overnight, I changed my mind and decided having handheld D-Star capabilities would be a better decision, and returned the radio back to AES the following day. While I completely understood and had no problem with the 15% restocking fee, I was however faced with a hostile reaction from 2 AES employees at the show, who made me feel more like a criminal than a member of the ham community. If I would’ve known this is how I would be treated, I would’ve kept the radio and given it to Laurie.

Needless to say after the many purchases I have made with AES over the course of the last 11 years, I will no longer be giving them any further business.

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