RadioBanter - View Single Post - s-meter readings - drake r8 vs.palstar r30cc vs. kenwood r-5000.

Telamon · January 6th 07, 04:21 AM posted to rec.radio.shortwave

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BDK wrote:

In article telamon_spamshield-2557A0.23063004012007
@newsclstr03.news.prodigy.net,
lid says...
In article .com,
"john" wrote:

Telamon wrote:
In article ,
BDK wrote:

In article m,
says...

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

In article
s.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.

--
Telamon
Ventura, California

so a stronger s-meter reading on one radio indicates the more sensitive
radio? in this case the kenwood?

It could. Like I posted earlier the readings would be comparable if the
radio has an absolute scale such as dBm instead of a relative scale.

And most SW and ham radios don't.

That's true...

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Telamon
Ventura, California