[Test-Equipment] Re: Test-Equipment Digest, Vol 48, Issue 19

[G4gvw at aol.com]

Hi All,
 
 
And then we get into yet another area of alternative definitions viz;  "phase 
modulation"
 
 
This debate is getting into wilder and wilder places where even the best  
techies and PhD's may fear to tread.
 
For most practical purposes, and for the average ham the very basic  
explanations as found in the ARRL or RSGB handbooks are more than  sufficient.
 
This is a hobby not a competitive peer reviewed scientific treatise  
exercise. very few hams nowadays design, build or even service (at a major  level) 
their own gear. For want of a better term most are "appliance operators"  and 
this applies to a very large number of the members of this group who are  
operating Yaesu manufactured "appliances".
 
This is properly defined in the statistics which may be derived from a) the  
number of ops requesting help, b)the number of uninformed and eroneous 
replies,  and c) the number of self-proclaimed "experts" (I seem to fit this group)  
offering advice.
 
A long time ago in the Royal Air Force, I remember an instructor bawling  
into my ear while I sweated over a hot soldering iron "When all else fails  
Laddie READ THE DAMN BOOK"
 
Seems like I keep using that phrase myself "
 
 
 
    

In the race  of life put a big bet on the nag named "Self-Interest" - He will 
always be in  there trying hard !

73 de Pat G4GVW

qth Near Felixstowe, East  coast of UK