Re: [APML]: Anyone Autoguiding a G-11 with a Pictor XT?

["Joseph O'Neil" <joneil@multiboard.com>]

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At 07:49 AM 7/13/98 EDT, you wrote:
>Hi Robert:
>The whole thing is a little puzzling. Could Meade possibly have done some
>product improvement? In researching this, I went back to _Sky and
>Telescopes's_ August 1997 review of the 201XT. In this review, Alan Dyer
>basically says that he WAS able to get the 201XT guiding with a G11 mount
with
>a little tinkering. I certainly don't doubt the experiences of the posters
>here--I wonder if something could have changed with Losmandy's electronics?
>Otherwise, his experiences with the unit basically mirror yours.
>Peace,
>Rod

Hi Guys;
        The very last thing I want to do is start anotehr thread on "how bad S&T
is now" type of thing, but I have to say that any equipment review by any
authoeur in either Astronomy or S&T, well I take such articles with a very
large grain fo salt.
        By comparison, the amatrue Astronomy magazine (forget the name at the
moment) i subscribe too out of the USA seems more even handed.  I just find
in the past few   years that any equipment review at all glosses over the
negative parts of any scope or accessory they "review".  It's all
"rah-rah-rah", if you get my drift.
        What I really find fustraiting is I am a small dealer myself ( real small
- my sales are probally 1/10th of 1% fo some place like Pocono or Company
Seven), but what I find fustraiting to the point of exasperation is
somebody will read a review of some equipment in one of th emagazines, then
call me up all excited aobut it.        
        Then if falls on my shoulders to be the "bad guy" , and point out that
maybe the product is not quite as described.
        So, moral of the story, when you read phrases like "a little tinkering",
well let me put it this way, last year a friend of mine dropped a new
engine in his wife' car to replace the blown engine.  He did this in his
driveway over the holiday weekend.  to him, his exact words words " a
little bit of work".
:)
joe

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