Colin, I've not heard from you in response to my note asking for your phone number and whether I could call you this weekend. I fear that I may have (completely unintentionally) hurt your feelings related to the mechanics of putting the Ultralight Firsts and Records list on DXer.ca. For whatever I said, I'm really sorry.... and I would like to talk to you about that soon, if I could call you at a mutually convenient time.
Also, I decided to respond outta the group to your upload yesterday about the term "Ultralight." I was originally going to upload this to the group as I routinely would.... but perhaps this is a better method of communicating a very different view of your terminology concerns. John B. At 08:45 PM 1/10/2008 -0800, Colin Newell wrote: > > I'm getting another ultralight to complement my SRF59. >Going to harp and harp and harp on this: > >Small portable radios should be referred to as UltraLight-radios, >ULr's, UL-Radios, or ULr. > >An Ultralight is a small aircraft. > >Your near-OCD DXer.ca editor, Colin, I respectfully but profoundly disagree. An Ultralight aircraft is just that.... an Ultralight Aircraft. If some people wish to call them "Ultralights" for convenience, and they do.... that is fine with me. An UltraLight radio is a radio that our Definitions Committee has defined, approved or certified (you may use the term of your choice) as an "Ultralight." If any of us wishes to refer to those particular radios simply as "UltraLights" or "Ultralights" for convenience, that is completely their privilege, IMHO. The proper term would not be "Ultralight Radio"(ULr) as you propound but rather "Pocket Radio Certified as 'Ultralight' by the Definitions Committee of the Informal Ultralight Radio Enthusiast Interest Group" (PRCUDC of the IUREIG) John B. Stillwater, Oklahoma, USA Rcvrs: WiNRADiO 313e, Eton e1, NRD-535(kiwa-mods) Antennas: 700' NE/SW mini-Bev, Wellbrook Phased Array (pre-production version) _______________________________________________ IRCA mailing list [email protected] http://montreal.kotalampi.com/mailman/listinfo/irca Opinions expressed in messages on this mailing list are those of the original contributors and do not necessarily reflect the opinion of the IRCA, its editors, publishing staff, or officers For more information: http://www.ircaonline.org To Post a message: [email protected]
