That was my point. It was really bad ten years ago (dynamic range) and
the fiber installs, etc. were prohibitive, especially if you were in a
nontechnically savvy part of the world. According to these docs they
have > 100dB of dynamic range now are are "affordable".
Bob
Jim Lux wrote:
At 08:36 AM 4/1/2006, Robert McGwier wrote:
You should have seen all of this stuff starting ten years ago when I
was having to use it for various reasons. It cost Avagadro's number of
dollars and the dynamic range was about 30-40 dB.
Bob
N4HY
I think Bob is a bit pessimistic here. Going from the presentation,
the top of the line transceivers were in the $10K range, 10 years
ago. Perhaps 20 years ago (mid 80s), fiber was pretty poor dynamic
range, and really expensive.
Jim, W6RMK
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