[CQ-Contest] Contesting/Computer glasses?

[Joe]

I agree 100% and that's why in EVERY message I have posted about this 
everyone said about Astigmatism, if you have it then this cheap way 
won't work..

But for those that it is just a spherical correction, you can use the 2 
bucks on the glasses and spend 400 on new radio stuff.

Joe WB9SBD / W9ET

On 2/18/2022 4:51 PM, Naumann, Robert, W5OV wrote:
> Joe,
>
> While I'm sure that some of what you say is true, I know that I need stuff done to my glasses to address my astigmatism, retinal problems, and prism.
>
> Oh, and my left eye and right eye are totally different other than they are both now suffering from problems relating to getting old.
>
> So for some who are fortunate, it might be OK to get $2 glasses, there are those like me where that's just not an option.
>
> 73,
>
> Bob W5OV
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: CQ-Contest<cq-contest-bounces+w5ov=arrl.org at contesting.com>  On Behalf Of Joe
> Sent: Friday, February 18, 2022 12:00
> To:cq-contest at contesting.com
> Subject: Re: [CQ-Contest] Contesting/Computer glasses?
>
> 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
>>>> Check out the new Reverse Beacon Network web server
>>>> at<http://beta.reversebeacon.net>.
>>>> For spots, please use your favorite
>>>> "retail" DX cluster.
>>>>
>>>> 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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