At 06:42 PM 1/27/03 -0500, James Wolf wrote:
>With todays measurement equipment, it's accuracy and ease of use, we should
>expect an organization like ARRL, to promote the state of the art and to be
>a leader in characterizing the performance of the equipment we use. If we
>are not going to at least attempt to be a good steward of our frequencies,
>who will?
I think the problem is less in the measurement than in the assignment of
the "letter grades."
Is 60 dB down at 1 kHz "good", "fair", or "very good"? And is the ARRL
willing to run the risk of alienating the manufacturer of the Whizbang 3000
by giving it a "poor" rating on anything? They had a hard-enough time
bringing themselves to run comparison tables on various transceivers and
other units, simply letting us seem comparable data actually compared. I
hope they would be willing to address this challenge.
73, Pete N4ZR
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