[Premium-Rx] better receivers.

[Cecil Acuff]

I second Michaels thoughts....I'm a hands on radio guy.  I like lots of 
knobs, buttons, displays\meters and a large weighted flywheel tuning knob. 
As long as that is the interface I can live with all the high tech DSP or 
whatever technology behind the front panel.  The PC based or web based radio 
interface leaves me cold.  No interest at all!  Of course that's probably 
not the wave of the future but that's OK I'll just continue to use the best 
of the old stuff.

Cecil...
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Michael O'Beirne" <michaelob at tiscali.co.uk>
To: "Premium-Radio" <premium-rx at ml.skirrow.org>
Sent: Tuesday, February 01, 2005 3:01 PM
Subject: [Premium-Rx] better receivers.


Evening folks,

I have read some of the recent offerings on newer and better radios.  I am 
afraid to say, in best Irish manner, include me out of this new mania for 
radios controlled entirely by the PC. If it hasn't got a robust 19 inch 
panel, a decent handsome layout, big chunky knobs and, essentially, a super 
smooth flywheel-weighted tuning knob, then I'm not interested.

I do very much approve of Steve Stutman's thoughts on Swiss ball bearings. 
You'll find some in the gearbox of the Plessey PR155 (and with incredible 
skew cut gears as well) and don't think of the cost!!!

No gents, when the radio is reduced to a PC buried deep inside the PC with 
linear predictive encoded speech (ie some Oriental voice) and Lord knows 
what else, why bother with HF, cut off the antenna and just use the Web.

For me the fun is the unpredictability of the medium and using super high 
quality radio in a form that is pleasing to me.  That's why all the awful 
black rice boxes are best passed by on the other side.

73s to all,
Michael O'Beirne
G8MOB



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