On Tue, Apr 29, 2008 at 12:39:52PM -0400, Mike Hyder -N4NT- wrote:
> The other day I saw on the reflector someone who indicated it might be
> impossible to work CW without a 500Hz filter. That is bunk! When I started
> out, if a receiver had more selectivity than perhaps 15kHz, we were lucky,
> but our ears quickly became selective. One thing to note with the Omni-C
> audio filter is that it is in the audio chain prior to the AGC sampling.
> The AGC is audio-derived. That means that signals outside the audio
> passband have a much lower effect on the AGC. It is just an excellent
> sounding radio in all respects.
I was the one who said that, and I still stand by it. I was refering to
an HF radio targeted at new hams who do not know morse code. When you
learned to copy code, 15kHz was the current technology.
Now it is not. If you try to convince someone brought up on high quality
telephone connections, 5 channel digital audio, cell phones and VoIP, I
doubt that you would convince them to find THEIR beeps in a sea of noise.
You learned it because you had to. They don't and they won't.
It's a different world out there now, and IMHO the only way to attact
significant numbers of "new blood" is to work WITH THEM with their
understanding of the world.
If you force them to work with analog tuning and imprecise digital
displays, bandwidths so wide that they hear more than one signal
loudly, etc, they will just throw up their hands in disgust and give
up.
Thanks to VoIP, my youngest son (10) thinks nothing of picking up the
phone and calling someone in the U.S. (9,000 miles away), my middle
son (12) plays mutliplayer games with people around the world.
I'm not asking anyone to give up their old radios, stop using CW,
etc. What I was asking was for a people (and Ten-Tec) to take a
good hard look at why new hams buy an HT, use it for a few months
and then give up on ham radio, and how we could entice them to
get on HF.
Geoff.
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Geoffrey S. Mendelson, Jerusalem, Israel gsm@mendelson.com N3OWJ/4X1GM
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