Thanks for the interruption! On 5/13/22, Matt Blaze <m...@mattblaze.org> wrote: > Apologies for interrupting this mostly quiet list. > > Other than getting to see and talk with all of you, my favorite part of the > fest is spending time in the listening lounge and getting to try out and > compare different receivers side-by-side. How different (or similar) are all > our favorite radios, really? I missed not getting to do that with the online > fest this year. > > So I decided to do a bit of a virtual listening lounge at home this year. I > dragged a bunch of receivers up to my roof (hey, the weather was nice), > hooked them all up to my portable Wellbrook through an RF distribution amp, > and recorded various signals as demodulated by each radio at the same time. > In other words, how well do our receivers do on the signals we actually > listen to? > > I posted the first installment of this as a guest post on Thomas's wonderful > SWLingPost blog. Here, we can see that while there are definitely > differences in the ergonomics and performance of good quality radios over > the last 40 years, their similarities are probably more striking: > > https://swling.com/blog/2022/04/matts-2022-rooftop-receiver-shootout/ > > I'll be doing a a second installment with even more radios, including > signals under more challenging band conditions that should more sharply > highlight their performances differences, in the weeks to come. Stay tuned. > > Thought the list might find this of interest. > > 73! > > -matt > _______________________________________________ > Swlfest mailing list > Swlfest@hard-core-dx.com > http://montreal.kotalampi.com/mailman/listinfo/swlfest > > To unsubscribe: Send an E-mail to > swlfest-requ...@hard-core-dx.com?subject=unsubscribe, or visit the URL shown > above. > > For more information on the Fest, visit: > > http://www.swlfest.com > http://swlfest.blogspot.com >
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