[ARC5] Sweating the detail - "Q" {was apples and oranges}

[Tim]

"if you don't sweat  the detail you probably won't get the best possible
result."

There is a back - packing axiom that is handy in deciding what to take in
your knapsack:
"If you worry about the ounces, the pounds will take care of
themselves....."

Tim
N6CC


On Wed, Oct 30, 2013 at 6:30 PM, Dennis Monticelli <
dennis.monticelli at gmail.com> wrote:

> Les,
>
> Interesting page.  I had never seen it.  Thanks!
>
> Dennis AE6C
>
>
> On Wed, Oct 30, 2013 at 4:10 PM, Leslie Smith <vk2bcu at operamail.com>
> wrote:
>
> >   Hello List-readers!
> >   Writing in the context of attention to detail, but involving "Q", not
> > dB and hearing levels, I want to mention a web-site that impressed me a
> > good deal.
> >
> >   Start here:  http://www.crystal-radio.eu/index.html
> >
> >   Then choose either dutch or english language and experiments with
> > "experiments with LC circuits".
> >   These pages describe a well-thought-out set of experiments that seek
> > to improve "Q" (decrease losses) and record the improvement gained -
> > from a lowly "Q" value of 150 or so up to a "Q" of around 1000.    The
> > page that impressed me most discusses "ripple" observed on the CRO
> > during measurement - an audio 'beat" between his lab equipment and a
> > distant powerful transmitter leaking into the experiment.  How many of
> > us would have noticed this detail, and taken the trouble to
> > investigate.  This is surely science at it's best!
> >
> >   All this proves what you say below, Dennis - that if you don't sweat
> > the detail you probably won't get the best possible result.
> >   In these experiments each improvement is only a few "Q" points - 20
> > here, 100 there - but in the end the result is both instructive and
> > impressive.
> >   I wish I could think like this!
> >
> >   Dennis - thanks for you posting.
> >
> >
> > 73 de Les Smith
> > [1]vk2bcu at operamail.com
> >
> >
> > On Thu, Oct 31, 2013, at 7:28, Dennis Monticelli wrote:
> >
> > It does make sense, Bruce.  A lot of sense.  It's a human behavioral
> > thing.  If you don't sweat that detail you probably won't sweat the
> > other two or three sub dB details either and that will eventually add
> > up to something that truly matters.
> >
> > Dennis AE6C
> >
> > References
> >
> > 1. mailto:vk2bcu at operamail.com
> >
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