OT: [Yaesu] changes in rigs when CW dropped?

[Brian Carling]

Hmm, I think these personal attacks are against the rules on qth.net 
After this rude, uncivil attack, all further e-mails from this 
person will be kill-filtered here. PLONK!

I think we have pretty much drifted the topic away from Yaesu radios now a=
nyway, 
so I won't contribute to the thread anymore.

I wish peace and a Happy Thanksgiving to everyone on the list!

73 - Bry, Af4K

On 25 Nov 2003 at 12:53, David Willmore wrote:

> > Interesting... but with ALL of these improvements they will
> > never SOUND as good or as clean as a good old tube receiver
> > like a Collins, for example.
> > 
> > Computers can try all they want but they will still sound very dirty
> > and abrasive to the ears.
> > 
> > I had not realized how BAD the solid state rigs ALL sound until I
> > got hold of a couple of old Collins 51J receivers lately. SO SWEET!
> > And they hear everything better than all of these $1000 - 3000 rice
> > boxes with their DSP / APF / ANF / preamp / mumbo-jumbo add-ons will
> > ever do! It cracks me up!
> > 
> > With the filters in this WW2 military tube rig I can dig out things
> > that the new rigs can't hear because of their inherent digital noise
> > floor.
> 
> I can only assume this is a troll.
> 
> But, just in case they actually believe it:
> 
> Yeah, tubes sounds great because they distort in a pleasing fashon. 
> Too bad that's still distortion.  I'm sure it makes you happy to
> listen to it, but nothing else wants their signal distorted that
> way--PSK31, RTTY, MT63, MSK16, any of the STANAG, etc.
> 
> If you didn't derive income from selling parts for older rigs it might
> be possible to take your comments more seriously.
> 
> Cheers,
> David N0YMV
> 
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