The Sherwood list ranking isn’t about how well radios “hear” in general. Under the right conditions, most of the radios on the last (and a whole lot of radios that aren’t) can hear everything our most beloved radio (whatever that is) hears. The list is ranked in order of decreasing narrow spaced (2Khz signal spacing) dynamic range, which is something that makes a difference in extreme conditions. The rankings don’t say a thing at all about MDS, or how the AGC behaves, or internal phase noise, or many other factors (although Sherwood does indicate when phase noise gets to be limiting in the measurements). Radios even close to the bottom of the list can hear everything just fine that a radio at the top of the list can — most of time. It’s those “not most of the time” situations where narrow spaced dynamic range matters that the ranking matters …
Grant NQ5T On Apr 2, 2014, at 12:55 PM, george fritkin <georgefrit...@yahoo.com> wrote: > No! And I have them all. My TenTec Eagle hears as good as my FT5K and our > beloved K3 and KX3 > > George, W6GF > On Wednesday, April 2, 2014 10:02 AM, "Charlie T, K3ICH" <pin...@erols.com> > wrote: > > Better hope there's no Flex's transmitting too close to your location > either. > > Chas > > > >> , Bill W2BLC wrote: >>> Can anyone really hear the difference between any of the top rated rigs >>> (Sherwood list) in the real world (not in a lab)? >>> >>> Bill K-Line >> > ______________________________________________________________ ______________________________________________________________ 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 Message delivered to arch...@mail-archive.com
