What a pleasant change from other places I've dealt with,very good experience.Got my eyepieces in a week and at the best price anywhere.This fellow works from his home but can get a lot of things if you ask.Knows a lot about his equipment and is really a nice fellow..should also mention his nice wife Suzanne who answers the phone and is obviously into the hobby as well.I will deal with these folks every time if they have what I need.Nice website check it out if you can.
.....Post script..It's been several months since my post above and I had to come back and give Joe a ten.He is fantastic to deal with!

Overall Rating: 10
Price:10 Service:10
Weight: 10
Date: 11/29/2002 11:33:41 am PST

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Bought most of my astronomy equipment from Khan's and spent several thousand $'s.My stuff was in good shape and was at a good price.After sale service is very poor and at one time we were verbally abused on the phone(must have been a bad day).We no longer deal with this shop but they had a good inventory and good prices.

Overall Rating: 1
Price:8 Service:0
Weight: 10
Date: 11/29/2002 11:28:25 am PST

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I just recieved my Denkmeier bino last week but feel I can honestly say this is the best accessory I have ever purchased.The bino comes in a handsome plastic carry case that is very well padded and handy.The bino is very well put together and looks like a fine piece of optical machinery.The eyepiece plugs are wimpy and fall out too easily,I don't need them so I didn't deduct any points for them.Although heavy I had no trouble balancing my lx200 with ep's in.The eyepiece holders work smoothly and hold my speers-waler 24mm nice and secure(even upside down).The extra magnification factor is very small,about 1.17x I've read and believe it.The view is magnificent!Bright and clean,easy to combine even on my 48 year old eyes.Very nice even on Neb's and the 3Deffect is a real eye catcher.One thing I was pleased about,the bino takes 11/4"filters.It even works on my Lumicon filter slide.I'm now officially hooked on 2 eye viewing.Bottom line WOW!WOW!SMILE!SMILE!Oh BTW,the Denmeier folks are great to deal with,fast,imformative and very helpful.They also have a 30 day return policy.

Overall Rating: 10
Performance:10 Value:10
Weight: 10
Date: 10/06/2002 11:04:30 am PST

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I just got to use my dew heating system on my 12"lx200..wow.What a difference it makes!The corrector plate stays dew free for the whole nite.Before it was a real struggle with moisture,I tried shields, blowers etc and eventually the dew won.The Kendrick system is really high class.The cables are very good and made of superior material as are the connectors.I found the staff at Kendrics to be A-1,helpfull and courtious.This is a must have item for scopes in any dew prone areas.Good nites of seeing or just finding a free nite to get away are too easily cut short by this mess.

Overall Rating: 9
Performance:10 Value:8
Weight: 10
Date: 04/25/2002 10:51:06 am PST

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I gave this scope a high overall as I think you have to see it as a beginer scope,that is very smart and easy to use once you use it a few times.I have a 12" lx200 as my main scope and bought the etx60-at for HA solar use.I was rather impressed with it as a night scope after putting my better eyepieces in it.I had no trouble seeing the larger planets and thier moons.The moon was wonderfull to view.I left it tracking saturn for 2 hours and it was still in the center of the ep.It does have rather high ambitions when you consider the items in it's goto memory,has some things that you can never see.I think they are there so a youngster could say he or she was looking in the right spot anyway.The goto was excellant once the allingment was done right and it didn't seem too difficult once you did it a few times.The focus knob it silly and I too added a tube to extend it,can't imagine what meade was thinking when that idea came up.All in all a wonderfull value.This is not a toy but the kids can have a ball with it at these prices.Just a note,Coronado used it as one of their test bed scopes for their solar filters,that says a lot to me.I like the little thing!

Overall Rating: 8
Optics:7 Ease of Use:8 Value:10
Weight: 10
Date: 04/23/2002 07:04:02 pm PST

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