> Sales Pitch: At a booth here, during an ARRL SW Division convention
>several years ago, where one of the early DSP outboard filter makers was
>demonstrating the noise reduction features of their "box". They had a
>noisy taped radio signal which they alternately passed and processed with
>their creation. It was an impressive demo and seemed to de-noise quite
>well.
>
> The taped source happened to be in Chinese so, I inquired whether the
>system would work as well on English transmissions... and received a
>somewhat pained look in response from the booth operators along with some
>signs of enlightenment from the other Hams present.
>
Yes, the famous Mandarin Chinese tape. I still laugh about that. As an
employee of that company I can tell you that we caught some flack for
using a non-English tape as a demo, although we did have English
material as well. But the biggest embarassment (and the reason the
sales guys ultimately quit using the tape) came one year at Dayton. A
Chinese gentleman who had heard the demo informed our salesman that
the material on the tape (which came from some shortwave broadcast)
was a discourse on the evils of the USA's capitalist society, and why
it was destined for collapse.
73,
Doug, K4DSP
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