[CQ-Contest] Contesting/Computer glasses?

[Joe]

I am sorry if I sound so forceful on this subject of the cheap ones.

It is because if you think walmart is bad, the prescription glasses 
industry is 1000 times worse.

When I quit the business only three companies controlled the whole 
market. and I think it is now down to two or maybe even one.

I worked with dozens if not hundreds of doctors.  I was at a company 
that actually made the glasses for the Doctor. 99% of the doctors do not 
make their glasses they send it off to a lab like I worked at to make them.

It took me years to convince my own wife that her readers that she had a 
eye doc make for her for almost 400 bucks, work no better than my 2 
dollar ones. They got to be better! they cost 400 bucks,  till I took 
her prescription and bought a $1.50 version of the same strength and 
said try these, she could not believe she could see just the same.

The eyeglass industry is a HUGE ripoff.

My lab bought the lens blanks for like 5 bucks a pair. like 10 minutes 
in the machine in the lab and they are done.
add another 5 bucks for the frame,,  labor is nothing, honestly, I was 
making geez 30 to 50 pairs of glasses a hour.

so we got like $11 bucks in cost, we sell them to the doc for 100 bucks, 
and then he sells them to you for 300/400,

when a 2 buck one is exactly the same. there is ZERO difference between 
the drugstore 2 buck readers and the 400 doc readers, optics is optics 
just because it costs more does not make any difference.

a dipole made form wire that you paid a dollar foot doesnt work any less 
well than a dipole you paid 100 dollars a foot for.

Plain antenna digital antenna.

I just hate to see people waste money when this is sooo simple.

Think about it,,

Doc says

what is clearer A or B

Now C or D

or you standing by the 2 buck rack,

what is clearer this pair, or this pair?

No difference, just costs 1% as much.

again only if you do not have astigmatism.

Joe WB9SBD W9ET

On 2/18/2022 10:27 AM, Joe wrote:
> exactly!
> It was the strength you needed for that distance. NOTHING SPECIAL 
> about it.
>
> if you do not have astigmatism, you could have gone and got 2 buck 
> glasses and done the exact and I mean exact same thing.
>
> Optics is optics,
>
> Joe WB9SBD / W9ET
>
> On 2/18/2022 10:02 AM, Zack Widup wrote:
>> The last time I had an eye exam, I asked the optometrist for computer
>> glasses. She gave me a prescription that was especially for computer 
>> use.
>> They focus at the distance from my eyes to a computer screen.
>>
>> 73, Zack W9SZ
>>
>> On Fri, Feb 18, 2022 at 9:05 AM Pete Smith N4ZR<pete.n4zr at gmail.com>  
>> wrote:
>>
>>> You can buy fixed "reading" glasses in various magnifications - 1.5, 2,
>>> 2.5 etc - in drugstores.  You just need to figure out what your usual
>>> distance from your screen is, and then test to find the magnification
>>> that works best for you at that distance.
>>>
>>>
>>> 73, Pete N4ZR
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>>>
>>> On 2/18/2022 12:44 AM, Gary K9GS wrote:
>>>> I remember several years ago that there was an online source for
>>> computer glasses for contesting.  The ones that focus a couple feet 
>>> out as
>>> opposed to readers.I tried searching the archives but couldn't find the
>>> company.Any help?73,Gary K9GS
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