Posted by
alorona on
Dec 02, 2010; 5:38am
URL: http://elecraft.85.s1.nabble.com/Fwd-New-Sherwood-report-tp5793377p5794898.html
Tables like this one mean almost nothing to me. Dynamic range is so good across
the board that it's now overrated. When you're talking about differences of a
few dB other details start to matter much more. For instance, the chief factor
that pushed me off the fence toward a K3 was it's diversity reception scheme;
you don't see that listed anywhere in the table.
What about how the radio *sounds*? Where in the table is that? How about it's
macro and programming capability? Is that in the table? Or its effect on your
psyche after 24 hours of a contest? These things are much harder to measure.
(Another pet peeve is the dozens of videos on YouTube with two radios set up
side by side as the camera operator switches the antenna between them, while the
built-in mic on the camera picks up all of the room noise. What in the world are
these videos supposed to prove?)
To paraphrase what Wynton Marsalis said about technique-- that all it does is
get you "in the door"-- about all these numbers prove is that a particular rig
is worthy of closer scrutiny. By no means is it a stamp of approval. This goes
for the K3 as well as any other rig.
Al W6LX
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