Hi Zack
Sadly I fear that you're correct in every respect. In line with the old maxim
"In the land of the blind the one-eyed man is king" experience shows that
people who are 99 percent ignorant but talk a good game market themselves as
experts to those who are 100 percent ignorant. And of course the latter
believe them. Not everyone in this world acts with honesty and integrity, let
alone with knowledge.
cheers
Dave G0OIL
--- On Tue, 30/12/08, Zack Widup <w9sz.z...@gmail.com> wrote:
From: Zack Widup <w9sz.z...@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: [DX-CHAT] Dissed by Infoworld?......and QRM.....
To: dx-chat@njdxa.org
Date: Tuesday, 30 December, 2008, 3:33 PM
I still contend that IBM and others have no real RF engineers working
for them. None of them seem to understand radio-frequency interference
or near-channel effects on things such as noise floor.
We studied all of that when I was in college in 1974 studying RF
engineering. It's not new data, just neglected. And of course means
extra cost to limit the RF noise.
73, Zack W9SZ
On 12/30/08, DAVE WHITE <mausop...@btinternet.com> wrote:
Hi all
On the QRM front, I've noticed a huge increase in RF noise from items
like Christmas lights this year. Someone a couple of street away put
some twinkling LED lights in his garden, purchased from Tesco (a large
supermarket chain here in the UK). These fill 160 and 80m with a
rasping noise over S9 and fill 20m with the same s9plus noise beaming
in that direction. Clearly the wire to the lamps works like an
antenna, transmitting diode hash and rubbish from the switched mode
supply. Needless to say, they're cheap Chinese trash from the Ping
Pong Poo Electrics Company (or whoever).
Electrical
gear that is sold in the EU is supposed to be tested and CE marked as
compliant with standards, but enforcement of this is
non-existent. Even big companies like BT (British Temecom)
falsely and fraudulently stamp "CE" on their home networking devices
which are staggeringly non-compliant with RFI standards.
Anyway,
this next bit is hilarious. I got this reply to my message
laughing at IBM, presumably from someone on the DX-CHAT group.
It's
anonymous and comes from a non-existent email address. I wonder
if this is the mindset of the spineless little people who cause
deliberate and anonymous QRM to dxpeditions:
QUOTE
From:
"tufts68...@mypacks.net" <tufts68...@mypacks.net>
You arrogant bastard...
P.S. I've worked in IT for 45 years, and fired dozens of arrogant a---------
like you.
END-QUOTE
(bad language deleted by me)
I
just love it when the reptiles come out from under their stones, don't
you? Wouldn't you have thought he'd at least have the courage to
put his name? Now you know who was probably sending a carrier and
dits all day over BS7H.....
Happy New Year and Good DX to you all!
OILy
--- On Mon, 29/12/08, DAVE WHITE <mausop...@btinternet.com> wrote:
From: DAVE WHITE <mausop...@btinternet.com>
Subject: Re: [DX-CHAT] Dissed by Infoworld?
To: dx-chat@njdxa.org, wn3...@verizon.net
Cc: w1...@arrl.org
Date: Monday, 29 December,
2008, 11:05 PM
Oh,
so "notching" is a new development, eh? Well it probably is if
you're a dullard who works for a bunch of buffoons like IBM!
Maybe if Ray Blair talked the the ham radio operators (who amazingly still have
clout) he'd find that we amazingly still have more knowledge and intelligence
than monkeys in blue suits like him
cheers
Dave G0OIL
(PS
I work in IT. It's always my pleasure to fire IBM consultants off
site. And EDS. And Accenture. And Tata.......)
--- On Mon, 29/12/08, Ron
Notarius W3WN <wn3...@verizon.net> wrote:
From: Ron Notarius W3WN <wn3...@verizon.net>
Subject: [DX-CHAT] Dissed by
Infoworld?
To: dx-chat@njdxa.org
Cc: w1...@arrl.org
Date: Monday, 29 December, 2008, 7:59 PM
Nice little article on Infoworld's site today, about the 10 most under-reported
tech stories of 2008.
Of interest to us is #6: BPL is Back from the Dead (see
http://www.infoworld.com/article/08/12/29/53FE-tech-underreported-powerline_1.html
)
Of note in the article is this paragraph:
"And
another recent innovation, called notching, lets the chips switch
frequencies when meeting interference. This upgrade should quiet the
fears of ham radio operators (who amazingly enough have still have
significant clout) and others that BPL will cause problems for various
radio services, says Ray Blair, IBM's head of advanced networking. "
"Who amazingly enough have still have significant clout" ???
Never mind the bad English (don't they employ editors anymore? or proof
readers?). I'm not sure if we
should take that as an insult or a compliment. What do you think?
73
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