In article telamon_spamshield-F6523C.20501704012007
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lid says...
In article ,
BDK wrote:

In article m,
says...

David wrote:
On Fri, 05 Jan 2007 02:17:32 GMT, Telamon
wrote:

In article .com,
"john" wrote:


An exception would be radios that have a signal strength meter in dBm,
which is an absolute scale.

Millivolts?

actually the palstar and the drake scales are in Decibels, while the
kenwoods scale is in Db at the top and millivolts at the bottom. also
before anyone asks my rf gain is fully clockwise on both the drake and
kenwood. the palstar doesn't have a rf gain control.



You can't even be sure identical radios will have the same S-Meter
readings, in most cases. The reading is pretty meaningless, except to
compare antennas, or if a preselector is used, to adjust for max
reading.

Nonsense.



Wanna bet? In most cases, side by side, identical models have different
meter readings. Usually it's slight, but sometimes it's huge. My JRC
NRD-515 has a "tight" meter. SSB audio can be clearly heard with the
meter at the left peg. Another 515 I had here for interconnect repair
was just as sensitive as mine, but the same signal would read S-2 or 3.
Same thing has happened with Kenwood R5000's, R2000's, and JRC NRD-525s.
(The first ones had a "spastic" S-Meter, later ones were cured of this)

In "pro" radios it might be true, but in hobby receivers, it's not true
that S-meters have any real correlation with signal strength in
comparing one radio to another.

BDK