[Elecraft] Elecraft technology

[Jack Brindle]

Al;

On Thursday, September 4, 2003, at 12:26  PM, <al_lorona@agilent.com>  
wrote:

> As far as basic receiver performance goes, isn't it amazing that two
> guys from California out-designed all of the huge engineering staffs of
> the Big Three in several critical areas of receiver performance? We are
> all sitting here thinking, "Of course. It's so simple. The K2 is better
> for all these reasons," but it took the genius of Eric and Wayne to  
> pull
> it off so perfectly.

This is something that amazes me. I spent 15 years of my career working  
next to RF designers. Their standard mixer circuit is still to place an  
amplifier stage in front of an active mixer. This is the standard  
circuit used in cell phones and other UHF (and higher) receivers even  
to this day, even though in the ham community we learned not to do  
things that way over 25 years ago. Of course, with all the digital  
noise being generated very close to the receiver (and being conducted  
into it), they tend not to care about low noise figures in these  
devices.

With the general method of commercial design being in this state, it is  
no wonder that a couple of hams can actually out-design the so-called  
pros.

- Jack Brindle, WA4FIB
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