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LivingNDixie
TSP Chowhound

Reged: 04/23/03

Loc: Trussville, AL

Re: AP 130EDFGT For Observing Only? new

[Re: Footbag]
#5679138 - 02/14/13 10:39 AM

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I wish they still had plans to make smaller refractors. I'd love something like a traveler. I could wait 10 years for that.

I feel your pain. Had the Traveler been produced one more time I would have gotten the call. I got on the list in early 2000 and they got up to late 1999, or so I was told a few years back.

So I was a little ticked how they handled the Stowaways. Not sure. I would have taken one, but I think a call would have been nice.

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jrbarnett
Eyepiece Hooligan

Reged: 02/28/06

Loc: Petaluma, CA

Re: AP 130EDFGT For Observing Only? new

[Re: Peter Natscher]
#5679194 - 02/14/13 11:07 AM

Yes, Pete, you should buy the scope, IF...

...you want/need a highly portable (including airline portable, due to its modularity) top quality, large aperture (for a refractor) scope for grab & go, general travel or similar use for which portability is a prime virtue.

Regards,

Jim

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t.r.
Post Laureate

Reged: 02/14/08

Loc: Upstate NY

Re: AP 130EDFGT For Observing Only? new

[Re: jrbarnett]
#5679272 - 02/14/13 11:42 AM

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So I was a little ticked how they handled the Stowaways. Not sure. I would have taken one, but I think a call would have been nice

Yeah, AP has an odd track record of offerings. I did my best to get on the 180 list several years ago...No Go, said it was closed even though I showed an interest. Lo and behold, out comes the 175EDF last year and people not even on the list or showed interest in such a scope get the call?!?!? Then, back in '07 the 140 comes out, no one on the 130 list gets a call to order first...new list, get in line?!?!?! People who attended NEAF take delivery within months...I'm on the 130 list for 8 years?!?!? A friend of mine attends NEAF and signs up as the first couple folks on the RH list, he notes the names ahead of him. A high profile imager who signs up well after him gets one and my friend...still waiting! I have a couple such dealings with AP that left me scratchin' my noggin'!!!