[Elecraft] Optimized mic ?

[N2EY at aol.com]

In a message dated 9/6/07 8:56:36 AM Eastern Daylight Time, lacosta at bcpl.net 
writes:

> On Thu, 6 Sep 2007 N2EY at aol.com wrote:
> 
> > All of the improvements in our
> > methods, rigs and antenna systems since then have been the direct results 
> of radio
> > competition of various kinds.
> 
> All of the improvements are direct result of competition? 

Competition *of various kinds*.

 So none of them were 
> 
> made simply to satisfy the creator, or give him/her what he/she wanted that 
> was 
> not driven by competition?
> 

When one wants something better than what already exists, and works to get 
it, that's a form of competition. 

> There are most likely a small number of folks who go about life meeting or 
> exceding their own standards, and don't gague their happiness or suceess on 
> the 
> basis of "beating" someone else.
> 

Meetin or exceeding one's own standards is a form of competition, even if it 
is competing with oneself.

I've been a distance runner since 1981. I've never been very fast, yet I 
entered many races simply to see how well I could do. Often I ran the same race 
several years in a row, in competition with myself, trying to set a "PR" 
(personal record). 

I've also designed and built many ham rigs, from my first 1 tube transmitter 
of 40 years ago to the rig currently on my webpage. All were an attempt to do 
better than I'd done before, and I learned an enormous amount from each of 
them. That's another form of competition. (One of the tests of whether New Rig is 
an improvement over Old Rig is how many points I could make with it in 
contests like Sweepstakes).

73 de Jim, N2EY



**************************************
 See what's new at http://www.aol.com