[Elecraft] (no subject)

[John Ragle]

Differences between discrete and discretize: Latter is a transitive verb 
belonging to the engineering/mathematics/physics world (and perhaps 
beyond). It would be difficult to "discrete" something. "To Discrete" 
does not exist as a transitive verb.

Your intent may have been to comment privately, but it didn't come out 
that way...all your persiflage went out on the reflector, and its intent 
was clearly to embarrass. Using the reflector to make fun of something 
you may not understand is pretty bad form, but more important than that, 
your sport-making interfered with a point with which I was trying to 
help a list participant.

The point is that when one designs an automatic ATU without servos (like 
the old Collins AN/ART-13), one is pretty much stuck with discretized 
components. The ATUs for the K2/K3 are carefully designed, whereas the 
discrete components in some other commercial automatic ATUs are not as 
carefully chosen. The K3 ATU is not an option I would forgo, 
particularly if I were considering mobile operation.

JLR