This is a perfect opportunity to exercise my right to remain silent. But, as usual, I will foolishly waive that right. As many of you know, engineers may set out in the beginning to build the best possible radio (or whatever product), but as the project progresses, other priorities begin to shape the final product. I have seen this happen myself. A good design is submitted for approval and the marketing dept. returns it and says,"this isn't going to cut it, get the cost down". So you start making compromises . If you can save a couple of bucks and your going to make 500,000 units, it adds up to significant dollars. In the case of the R-4C, it may have been making the crystals filters and noise blanker optional and other design compromises. I don't see anything wrong with a consumer deciding to put those improvements back in. After all, his motive is not making a profit or running a business. His motives are based on performance for the most part. That being said, I agree with Gary, I probably wouldn't recommend the Sherwood mods for everyone. A used R-4C is going to cost you $300 or so, and the mods are going to get you up to about $1000 plus lots of your own time implementing them. It definitely improves the radio, but is it worth a kilo buck? I suspect not. I love mine and won't sell it, but probably won't do it again.
As for starting another group where discussions like this would not be allowed, I just can't think of a situation where depriving myself of differing opinions would be beneficial. 73, Bob. K6GGO Sent from my iPad On Jan 3, 2012, at 6:14 AM, "Gary Poland" <[email protected]> wrote: > Ok, one last comment and I’ll shut up. Regardless of how you feel about > the Sherwood mods my point is, for me anyway, its not practical because of > the cost. Whether I did it myself or not, I cannot justify putting that kind > of money into a radio that’s 30 plus years old. I have had a couple R-4C’s > with all the Sherwood mods here to work on ( failed filter switching relays ) > and I can honestly say I cant recommend it to anyone, too much money for > what you end up with. If you’re a contest CW operator maybe there is more of > a benefit. > > 73, Gary > _______________________________________________ > Drakelist mailing list > [email protected] > http://mailman.zerobeat.net/mailman/listinfo/drakelist
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