On Thu, 8 Mar 2012, Tony Estep wrote: > On Thu, Mar 8, 2012 at 10:54 AM, WILLIS COOKE <wrco...@yahoo.com> wrote: >> I wouldn't have mentioned it Jim, except Tony's funny comment muddied the >> water... > =========== > Yeah, there's always some smart-aleck to confuse the issue. But > seriously, I don't see why MFJ couldn't put a minus sign or something > on the display. My cheapo Autek gadget (<$100 on ebay) tells you > series and parallel reactance with sign, equivalent C, equivalent L, > phase angle, and some other stuff as well as SWR. I'm not an > MFJ-basher; I have been happy with all the MFJ stuff I have. But in > this case IMHO they left out some worthwhile functionality.
Look at the different analyzer comparisons and you'll notice that a lot of them do NOT have the sign of the reactance. My buddy bought the Autek back in the day because of that reason and it was several hundred dollars. I just bought a Rig Expert for the same sort of reasons. -- Hisashi T Fujinaka - ht...@twofifty.com BSEE(6/86) + BSChem(3/95) + BAEnglish(8/95) + MSCS(8/03) + $2.50 = latte ______________________________________________________________ Elecraft mailing list Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm Post: mailto:Elecraft@mailman.qth.net This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html
