[R-390] R-390A dB meter as as "S" meter

[Gord Hayward]

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>In common use on the ham bands trading 599's with the DX is usually meaningless, and anything reported below S9  is usually subjective relative to band noise. I know this breaks the official standard but it's life. You could spend your whole ham career trying to report S meter readings by the official standards but that's honestly not too fun.
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I've enjoyed it - calibrating S-meters has been one of the things I like 
to do.
Its like the outside remote antenna tuner that I built for 80m.  I can 
honestly
claim SWR matches of 1.05:1.  Not meaningful but lots of neat bragging 
rights.

In the matter of '59'  I remember getting into an AM pileup and after 
many tries
getting the contact who then gave me a '59'.  What can I say?

Cheers, Gord VE3EOS

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Gordon L. Hayward, Ph.D., P.Eng.,
Associate Professor, Biological Engineering,
School of Engineering, University of Guelph,
Guelph, Ontario, N1G 2W1.