Whether you like QST's methodology or if their intentions are altruistic or
if they are "cuddling up" to their advertisers, they are still light years
ahead of CQ and any other publication in the thoroughness of testing. It
was my impression, years ago, that CQ's "testing" was nothing more than
shilling for the various products. Their reviews often were nothing more
than rehashing the operating manual and company advertising. Maybe it's
changed, as I haven't subscribed to CQ in years. 73, was even worse, as per
the largest huckster of them all, Wayne Green!!
73,
Art, N2KA
Ron Notarius WN3VAW wrote:
> We only have QST? What are CQ, 73, and Worldradio, chopped liver?
>
> 73, ron wn3vaw
>
> "There's No Crying in Baseball!"
> -- Jimmie Dugan, "A League of Their Own"
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: Tom Rauch <w8ji@contesting.com>
> To: <tentec@contesting.com>; Mike Hyder -N4NT- <N4NT@chartertn.net>
> Sent: Sunday, April 14, 2002 3:30 PM
> Subject: Re: [TenTec] OMNI VI Transmit IMD [6+]
>
> > I just had visions of a guy buying a television set, hauling it home,
> > taking it apart and running endless tests to see if it does as
> > Consumer Reports said it does. Or buying a car and setting it up to
> > test its horsepower, compression ratio, etc. There is nothing wrong
> > with doing these things -- it's just sorta amusing for me to think of
> > it.
>
> The real problem is we don't have a consumer reports to look at! We
> only have QST, and they sure aren't nearly as thorough.
>
> The automotive equivalent of the modern rig problems we are
> discussing are not compression and horsepower. They are more like
> having a car that occupies a large part of the lane next to it when
> driving down the highway on a calm day, leaks oil on other people's
> sidewalks, and gets blown off the road whenever a large truck goes
> by.
>
> Or for a television set, it would be a TV that receives the adjacent
> channels and whose local oscillator screws up the rest of the TV sets
> in the neighborhood.
>
> Like George, I don't want to bother other people operating on
> different frequencies when I transmit through any fault of my own
> equipment, and I don't want to be bothered by others when they are a
> few kHz away from the weak signals I am listening to no matter whose
> fault it is.
>
> If I ran 100 watts, had small antennas, lived in an urban location,
> and mostly operated phone near other strong signals, I'd probably
> care less about actual performance. I'd probably pick my rig by
> looking at paint color and the choice of 10,000 selectable
> filters!73, Tom W8JI
> W8JI@contesting.com
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