[Icom] DC-Daylight apostrophe abuse
Mel
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Sat, 24 May 2003 19:15:44 -0400
We're being pedantic today ;-)
Actually, this is not necessarily incorrect use of an apostrophe...
I recently had occasion to write up a proposal to use the Blackberry
mobile PDAs at the company where I work... (this is often typed as PDA's
like ABC's... But is not strictly correct, though accepted by many
editors)
I discussed this very issue with the Marketing department of Research in
Motion, the company that produces the Blackberry unit. I asked them for
the proper spelling for the plural. It's not, as one might assume,
Blackberries, or Blackberrys... It's Blackberry's... With the
apostrophe.
It was this in mind that I used the plural form Icom's... But you may
well be right...
Another example would be a word such as " a thank-you"... The plural
would be "many thank-you's"...
>The apostrophe is used to show the possessive singular. It should not
be used
>when the sense is plural as in "several Icoms."
Mel...
VE2DC
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Subject: [Icom] IC-703
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Just picked up an IC-703 at Dayton - neat radio, made even better by
emulating the 706 as far as menus and the general operation. I intend to
use the radio for battery powered portable operation, something that I tried
to do with the IC-706MKII with little success. The current draw and voltage
requirements in addition to the built in tuner make this one really shine.
The IC-706 drew almost 3 amps on receive, I couldn't carry enough batteries.
Once the supply voltage dropped below 12 volts, it did all sorts of strange
things.
The IC-703 doesn't replace the IC-706 series, but it sure goes along with it
well...
One thing that I did notice was a bit of "raspiness" to the receive audio at
times. It's most noticeable with an external speaker plugged in. I've
tried several speakers, finally found one that seems to work. Don't know if
it's just my radio, or something in common with all IC-703's. Still
investigating this, as it doesn't do it all of the time... It could also
probably use the 1.8 khz SSB filter, but it's big bucks!
Steve, N�CZV
Steve Garwood
N�CZV / AFA1GQ USAF MARS
Attica, Ohio USA