[Elecraft] A Rob Sherwood's talk in Dayton

[Tony Estep]

Very interesting, Gus. One of the most salient impressions that comes out
is how little on-air testing seems to be done by most manufacturers. I
guess that most rigs are made for phone ragchewers, and are probably fine
for that purpose; but many of the faults that Rob Sherwood points out
become obvious with a few hours of actual pileup or contest operation. How
could a manufacturer imagine that a DXer would prefer to work a split
pileup with a mouse-tuned radio, or send CW with a radio whose internal
keyer spits out dits and dahs of random length? And the phase-noise
dynamics that Rob describes -- they may not show up on a certain test, but
they're clear enough when you use the radio, as are a variety of AGC
problems. The Elecraft tradition started with rigs that would meet the
requirements of a multi-op Field Day, and they have stuck with that
viewpoint, to the benefit of their users. Meanwhile other radios I've owned
or used have had irritating flaws that would have been glaringly apparent
to the makers if they had actually tried them on the air before committing
the design to production.

Tony KT0NY



On Thu, Jun 6, 2013 at 6:09 PM, Gustavo Villada <villada at gmail.com> wrote:

> A comparison of several rigs, KX3 included
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> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SOf2OOGeGi8
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> 73
> Gus LU6AGV
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