[ICOM] Lack of antennas for "live" demos

[STeve Andre']

The issue isn't technical.  It's regulatory.  I would bet money that stringing
an antenna up near the rafters is a violation of at least three sections.  We
are drowning in regulations.

--STeve Andre'
wb8wsf  en82

On Monday 06 June 2005 22:57, Jerry K3BZ wrote:
> 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.
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> 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.
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> By the way, SteppIR didn't have to take that MonstIR home... they delivered
> it to a buyer after the show.
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> 73,  Jerry K3BZ
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> ----- 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
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> >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?
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> 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?!
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> Scott N7SS
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