The ARRL labs reports are certainly good as far as they go. But the bare numbers don't go far enough. Steve's suggestion of trying to copy CW through an artificial QRM generator would help but I woul
Tom's suggstion of a three tone test would be better than what we have - but in my experience engineering departments get awfully good at designing products to pass tests. Just as some testing organi
Congratulations on your purchase. I keep mine on the shelf behind my office chair; where I can monitor the DX windows and work the "new ones" when they come up; and am very satisfied with it. I use a
Actually, I prefer a black and white pix. Color pix take too long to load. As it is the B/W pix takes about as long as it takes to make and drink one pot of coffee to load on this slow computer, and
First, let me clearly admit that this is strictly opinion. I probably have more paddles than I need. And I will cheerfully admit, up front, that I don't have the delicate touch that some hams have. S
Virus writers remind me of the idiots who used to short sheet barracks beds, balance buckets of water on doors, and play other "practical jokes." Like holding a chunk of dry ice in the palm of their
I tried the Heil's on my Omni V's and VI's. The results were not satisfactory. I wound up adding a mini jack to several of my stock 705's and use the TT's excellent audio amp to bring the audio level
I too wait with 'bated (not really abated, I'm still breathing) breath for more information about the Orion. Particularly a firm release date - but I will gratefully accept any bit of information any
I am not really concerned about the Orion cosmetics. I let my wife look at the first pix posted on the web and she said it looked very nice. That's high praise from her - but her next words were "I w
Well, first let me finish cussin' an E-mail program that has no easy way to insert a snippet from another E-mail. Then let me see if I can find a way to explain something in absolutely non-technical
Well, this E-mail program still doesn't do snippets, and I long ago gave up trying to insert formulae, graphs, and the like in Email. Much less trying to rember whether a given citation was in the se
Quite some time ago, even to me, the University of Michigan ran a test on the legiblity of things painted various colors. Turned out that white on black and white on red scored 100, black on white an
Good question, one that's going to get a lot of answers. Here's mine... The black on white display would be far more legible than a color display. I have used a couple of rigs with colored displays -
Considering some of the stuff, including a comment or two of mine, that has shown up here lately I don't know that anything is off limits. But... It's strictly a guess but my GUESS is that your neigh
My word! All the complaints about prices, in a time when the average family's income is close to $40,000 a year. According to my 1968 Allied catalog, during the early years of the Nixon administratio
I failed to completely annotate my previous posting. Quoted retail prices were from the Hattiesburg American (Hattiesburg, Ms) edition of 5/6/69. Average salaries are quoted from the financial "secti
I third the motion on Logic. Been a user since 1989, and the latest version does everything but make coffee. And if the computer had a switched outlet it would probably do that. Their standalone rig
I have not had good luck with a simple Heil mike and a TenTec - including my Paragon 1/II, the three Omni VI's or the Jupiter. But I don't have three hands either, and TenTec does not offer a boom mi
The somewhat acrimonious discussion of antennas here reminds me that an EE I slaved for back in the early 1950's told me flatly that there would be no demand for more than one, two, or possibly three