[Elecraft] RST or S - meter readings?

[David Pratt]

In a recent message, Geoffrey Mackenzie-Kennedy 
<gmk at gm4esd.fsworld.co.uk> wrote ...
>each S unit should
>represent a 6db change in signal level from S9 downwards. This 'standard'
>had been used certainly in Regions 1 and 2 as far as I know by or before
>1946, but most people gave reports based on how well a signal was being
>received not by S meter readings (if you had a S meter!!). As an aside I
>have the manual for an ancient Eddystone 640 receiver which makes note of
>this 'standard'.

FWIW the external plug-in Eddystone S-meter (Cat.669/E)for the 640 has 
printed on the scale "1 DIVISION = 4db", OTOH the internal S-meter on my 
680X says "1R = 6db".
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David G4DMP
Leeds, England, UK
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