I hate Radio Shack

From: John Foust <jfoust_at_threedee.com>
Date: Fri Jun 7 17:21:33 2002

At 05:00 PM 6/7/2002 -0400, Corda Albert J DLVA wrote:
>What annoys me is when they give horribly incorrect advice. I stopped
>by a local radio shack earlier this week to price out some RG6/U for
>a new DirecTV dish that I was cobbling together. I needed about ~350
>feet of cable. The sales droid insisted that I'd needed to buy three
>in-line amps, and install them all at the dish ... (I guess he knew
>enough rudimentary english to read the amp packaging, and extrapolate)
>What bothered me the most, though, was the authoritative manner in which
>he described what I had to do. It took quite an effort to keep from
>laughing in his face...

Yeah, but if he'd described putting them in-line the right
way, would that even work? Is there enough power there to
handle three amplifiers, and wouldn't the noise obliterate the
signal eventually?

- John
Received on Fri Jun 07 2002 - 17:21:33 BST