I understand. Anyway, not all the people who sell electronics know exactly what they are selling or know how to explain things or guide the customer in the right way. I once hear something really funny at a computer shop, a vendor telling the customer that only two operating systems exist: Windows and Linux. He was supposed to know what he was talking about !!!
And returning to the radios, is our decision what to use as a standard radio and what to use as a backup. But, before being caught in a problem in flight, we must test if the equipment will do what we suppose it should do. Just in case. Regards daniel ________________________________ From: Paul M. Anton <[email protected]> To: Daniel Arditi <[email protected]> Cc: [email protected] Sent: Saturday, July 11, 2009 8:19:24 PM Subject: Re: [ercoupe-tech] Re:handheld Hi Daniel: I was tripped up by the internet. :-) I was trying to thrown a stone at Vertex. The chap had an aviation band radio that suffered from front end overload as soon as he got off the ground. When he complained to the manufacturer, they said their radio was only intended to be used on the ground. In my opinion a great number of these radios are purchased as backup radios and even primary radios. I myself have a Sportys handheld which I have used in flight as a backup when I lost electrical one night. I think vertex should design more selectivity into their front ends or perhaps stick to 2 meters. I would have really been angry if when I grabbed my handheld when I lost all electrical at night if all I heard were commercial broadcast stations instead of ATC. So my apologies I was just venting. Cheers: Paul N1431A 2AZ1
