Looks like a nice product. Great to hear a good review here. THANKS!!!
On 9/12/2013 11:59 PM, [email protected] wrote: > It has been my pleasure to own and operate the VK4GHZ Thunderbolt display for > several months. It works good, does what is should and I am totally pleased > with it. It was easily installed and operated from the get go. If I did not > have one I would have > appreciated being notified of the of such a product via this list so I could > buy it. > > It has been my good fortune to be Chief Engineer or VP of engineering for a > number of RF organizations prior to my retirement. As such one must estimate > and then defend to management, customers or the government, the non-recurring > engineering costs for every project. So I can say with some confidence, > rotary switches or not, this device required several hundred hours of design > time for which the designer will never recover the true cost unless he values > his time at 8 cents an hour. So a hearty well done to VK4GHZ from this old > engineer. > > Further despite the pompous pretense of "High SNR" I see things a bit > different - > > 1. Many are too lazy to delete the previous emails when commenting - > resulting infinitely redundant repetition of previous comments. So much for > not wasting bandwidth. > > 2. There is a tendency to hammer someone to death for being "off topic". So > what, I cannot see that the "on topic" stuff is all that vital to the good of > mankind. Interesting, and invaluable sometimes, but if the space wasted by > the practices noted in item 1 were devoted to some of stuff judged "off > topic" - this list would be a lot more interesting. > > An example was the never-ending discussion of RS-232 a couple of weeks back. > I believe that every possible mickey-mouse way to not do an RS-232 interface > properly was floated. Yet this is "on topic". > > I even noted that one person - who most of us respect - manged to volunteer > the notion that "no one should use RS-232 now days". Hunh?? Why not? It works > and the USB disadvantaged such as myself manage to get by with it while > implementing our projects. > > So it is my view that a number of members of this group could use a large > injection of common courtesy, and should not be so critical of the efforts of > others. > > After all, it is a hobby. > > -73 john K6IQL > _______________________________________________ > time-nuts mailing list -- [email protected] > To unsubscribe, go to https://www.febo.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/time-nuts > and follow the instructions there. _______________________________________________ time-nuts mailing list -- [email protected] To unsubscribe, go to https://www.febo.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/time-nuts and follow the instructions there.
