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

[Robert Hoyle <rhoyle@earthlink.net>]

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Hi Joseph,

Guess you saw Wil M.'s post in response to yours here.  Pretty much on-point.  It
seems that product reviews function in part as just another form of "advertising".
Like you say, take things with a big grain of salt.

Rx


Joseph O'Neil wrote:

> 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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