[ICOM] Lack of antennas for "live" demos
Jerry K3BZ
k3bz at arrl.net
Mon Jun 6 22:57:27 EDT 2005
Come on....These guys have some of the best EEs in the world, some are even
hams, and they can't use a little ingenuity to hook up an antenna? No excuse
for that. String some wire from the rafters like many of us did at our high
school science fairs. There were display antennas all over the place they
could have used. They could probably have loaded up the overhead girders.
I was glad to learn that the ICOM station was using the SteppIR MonstIR, and
I'm sure they had to jump through a few hoops, but that comes with the
territory. They shouldn't have to resort to trickery and deceit. But I
suppose a recording is more dependable than the HF bands have been lately.
By the way, SteppIR didn't have to take that MonstIR home... they delivered
it to a buyer after the show.
73, Jerry K3BZ
----- Original Message -----
From: "Scott Honaker" <scotthon at pilchuckvet.com>
To: <icom at mailman.qth.net>
Sent: Monday, June 06, 2005 10:26 PM
Subject: [ICOM] Lack of antennas for "live" demos
>ICOM is certainly not the only one that uses this "time machine
>recording" type of deceptive approach to
>demonstrating their wares, but why does anyone do this?
Icom was the only one I saw. It has nothing to do with deception, it's
practicality. I understand someone drove the MonstIR to Dayton from
Washington (state) and clearly someone had to drag that US Tower trailer out
there. Icom was able to ship their radios but then they had to deal with
getting permissions for the structure and the 1000' cable run into the
building from the event organizers, fire department, planners, etc. and
overcome their every objection. Then came the actual construction/erection
of the whole thing. That got exactly ONE radio on the air.
When I visisted the Kenwood and Yaesu booths too and I didn't notice any
signal source on any radios. Yaesu brought all three versions of the
FT-DX9000 and I wanted to play a bit (since they want more than the
IC-7800). There was no signal. The bandscope didn't work, I couldn't try
using any filters, switching modes didn't get me anything, etc. It was a
pretty lame display. I don't blame them at all for not having an antenna,
but not even a VCR on their new $13K+ rig?!
Scott N7SS
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