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-----Original Message----- From: flexradio-boun...@flex-radio.biz [mailto:flexradio-boun...@flex-radio.biz] On Behalf Of William H. Fite Sent: Sunday, April 17, 2011 3:47 PM To: K0DAN Cc: FlexRadio@flex-radio.biz; Jeff Singer Subject: Re: [Flexradio] FMT Results Like a lot of other material in this general area, things have been written, on Connie's site and others, that are easily understood by people who already understand them. In >30 years of teaching graduate students and directing their research, I have found this an extremely common phenomenon. "It seems perfectly clear to me, Dr. Fite." "Well, of course it does. You wrote it." The more education and experience one has, the more difficult it becomes to recall what parts of the early stages were hard to grasp and why. But the responsibility for clear communication resides, by definition, with the transmitter, not with the receiver, a point lost on too many otherwise friendly and eager-to-be-helpful experts. If more people are to become involved in FMTs, experienced FMT-ers are going to have to write, "OK, now here is what you do first. Then do this. Then this. Then this." Instead, volunteers, with every intention of being helpful and with every conviction that they are providing clear and straightforward instructions produce something reminiscent of Chief Bellison explaining an equipment failure to Captain De Vriess in* The Caine Mutiny*: *"The port bandersnatch got fouled in the starboard rath when we tried to galumph the cutting cable so as not to trip the snozzle again. I had to unshackle the doppelganger and bend on two snarks instead so we could launch in a hurry."* Entertaining...but not helpful. On Sun, Apr 17, 2011 at 1:40 PM, K0DAN <k0...@comcast.net> wrote: > Has anyone written a white paper on the tools/techniques for getting best > results in an FMT? > > 73 > > dan > k0dan > > ----- Original Message ----- From: "Jeff Singer" <jsin...@i1.net> > > To: <FlexRadio@flex-radio.biz> > Sent: Sunday, April 17, 2011 11:38 AM > Subject: [Flexradio] FMT Results > > > > Tough FMT. I was having trouble calibrating my 5000 to my satisfaction >> before the test and bailed out of participating. >> Had something else to do that was pretty important. >> >> Just saw the results and it appears that Doppler was terrible which >> probably >> explains my calibration problem. Scores were mostly poor. >> >> Tom, you can use the Flex scope or phase display to estimate signals to >> tenths of a Hz. >> >> See all results at: >> http://www.b4h.net/fmt/fmtresults201104.php >> >> Jeff K0OD >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> FlexRadio Systems Mailing List >> FlexRadio@flex-radio.biz >> http://mail.flex-radio.biz/mailman/listinfo/flexradio_flex-radio.biz >> Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/flexradio%40flex-radio.biz/ >> Knowledge Base: http://kc.flexradio.com/ Homepage: >> http://www.flexradio.com/ >> > > > _______________________________________________ > FlexRadio Systems Mailing List > FlexRadio@flex-radio.biz > http://mail.flex-radio.biz/mailman/listinfo/flexradio_flex-radio.biz > Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/flexradio%40flex-radio.biz/ > Knowledge Base: http://kc.flexradio.com/ Homepage: > http://www.flexradio.com/ > _______________________________________________ FlexRadio Systems Mailing List FlexRadio@flex-radio.biz http://mail.flex-radio.biz/mailman/listinfo/flexradio_flex-radio.biz Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/flexradio%40flex-radio.biz/ Knowledge Base: http://kc.flexradio.com/ Homepage: http://www.flexradio.com/ _______________________________________________ FlexRadio Systems Mailing List FlexRadio@flex-radio.biz http://mail.flex-radio.biz/mailman/listinfo/flexradio_flex-radio.biz Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/flexradio%40flex-radio.biz/ Knowledge Base: http://kc.flexradio.com/ Homepage: http://www.flexradio.com/
