Your point being? It's an important topic. And sound advice was provided concerning EMI receivers and pre-selectors before segueing into why "EMC receiver" is bad terminology. Ken Javor
Phone: (256) 650-5261 > From: Pryor McGinnis <[email protected]> > Reply-To: <[email protected]> > Date: Fri, 28 Nov 2008 14:53:50 -0800 (PST) > To: John Woodgate <[email protected]>, <[email protected]>, Ken Javor > <[email protected]> > Subject: Re: EMI Receivers > > Is this not getting far afield from the original topic? > > > --- On Fri, 11/28/08, John Woodgate <[email protected]> wrote: > >> From: John Woodgate <[email protected]> >> Subject: Re: EMI Receivers >> To: [email protected] >> Date: Friday, November 28, 2008, 2:13 PM >> In message >> <c55593df.324c0%[email protected]>, dated >> Fri, 28 >> Nov 2008, Ken Javor <[email protected]> >> writes: >> >> >>> This paragraph also shows the corrosive influence of >> poor terminology. >>> In fact, getting this from Mr. Woodgate, the >> pre-eminent sage of this >>> very large forum - stated with the utmost respect - in >> my mind confirms >>> the very real hypothesis of one of Mr. Woodgate's >> compatriots, the >>> late, great George Orwell. In "1984," Orwell >> develops the concept of >>> "Newspeak," a careful reconstruction of >> language to either eliminate >>> undesirable concepts, or change their meanings. The >> idea being that if >>> you control and change the language, you control and >> change how people >>> think. The above paragraph quoted from Mr. >> Woodgate's post appears to >>> validate the idea of Newspeak. >> >> Please understand that I did not write the original Minute >> that I >> quoted. And I would call it 'Minute-speak' rather >> than 'Newspeak'. >> >> Apart from some new words, at least one of which, >> 'thoughtcrime', was >> not in any way original in concept, having been invented by >> some >> religious zealots around 500 years previously, Newspeak is >> mainly about >> imposing an ugly pseudo-mathematical logic on grammar, such >> as >> 'double-plus ungood' for 'extremely bad', >> and this aspect of it really >> has little literary merit, in my opinion. >> -- >> OOO - Own Opinions Only. Try www.jmwa.demon.co.uk and >> www.isce.org.uk >> Either we are causing global warming, in which case we may >> be able to stop it, >> or natural variation is causing it, and we probably >> can't stop it. You choose! >> John Woodgate, J M Woodgate and Associates, Rayleigh, Essex >> UK >> >> - >> ---------------------------------------------------------------- >> This message is from the IEEE Product Safety Engineering >> Society emc-pstc discussion list. To post a message to the >> list, send your e-mail to <[email protected]> >> >> All emc-pstc postings are archived and searchable on the >> web at: >> http://www.ieeecommunities.org/emc-pstc >> Graphics (in well-used formats), large files, etc. can be >> posted to that URL. >> >> Website: http://www.ieee-pses.org/ >> Instructions: >> http://listserv.ieee.org/request/user-guide.html >> List rules: http://www.ieee-pses.org/listrules.html >> >> For help, send mail to the list administrators: >> Scott Douglas <[email protected]> >> Mike Cantwell <[email protected]> >> >> For policy questions, send mail to: >> Jim Bacher: <[email protected]> >> David Heald: <[email protected]> > > - > ---------------------------------------------------------------- > This message is from the IEEE Product Safety Engineering Society emc-pstc > discussion list. To post a message to the list, send your e-mail to > <[email protected]> > > All emc-pstc postings are archived and searchable on the web at: > http://www.ieeecommunities.org/emc-pstc > Graphics (in well-used formats), large files, etc. can be posted to that URL. > > Website: http://www.ieee-pses.org/ > Instructions: http://listserv.ieee.org/request/user-guide.html > List rules: http://www.ieee-pses.org/listrules.html > > For help, send mail to the list administrators: > Scott Douglas <[email protected]> > Mike Cantwell <[email protected]> > > For policy questions, send mail to: > Jim Bacher: <[email protected]> > David Heald: <[email protected]> - This message is from the IEEE Product Safety Engineering Society emc-pstc discussion list. To post a message to the list, send your e-mail to <[email protected]> All emc-pstc postings are archived and searchable on the web at: http://www.ieeecommunities.org/emc-pstc Graphics (in well-used formats), large files, etc. can be posted to that URL. Website: http://www.ieee-pses.org/ Instructions: http://listserv.ieee.org/request/user-guide.html List rules: http://www.ieee-pses.org/listrules.html For help, send mail to the list administrators: Scott Douglas <[email protected]> Mike Cantwell <[email protected]> For policy questions, send mail to: Jim Bacher: <[email protected]> David Heald: <[email protected]>
