23 Sep
2005
23 Sep
'05
11:36 p.m.
Call me a old fart but I still like Analog Radio and
real music rather
than digital this and that. I still think the BEST radio's are still
ones built by hand rather than a mass market product like you see now
days.
This is an interesting opinion, as it is opposite to what the old
fart ham guys thought (and still do). Ever since the 1930s, radio
receivers were purchased, with the engineering left to the experts
(National, Collins, Hammarlund, etc.), but the transmitters were almost
always homebrewed.
There is a reason for this - making a even a "just good" receiver is
rather difficult, but making an excellent transmitter is not that hard.
William Donzelli
aw288 at osfn.org