On Mon, 25 Jul 2011 05:56:43 +0000 (UTC), Owen Duffy
wrote:

Next thing, someone will market a happiness meter, an SWR meter rebadged
and rescaled with a percentage happiness factor.

Sorry, but that would be prior art:
http://cybraphon.com/process/the-emotion-meter/
http://www.flickr.com/photos/cybraphon/3789780162/in/pool-917701@N24/
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/E-meter
I worked on something similar for the audiophile industry, when I
invented an ambience and presence meter.

Personally, methinks the correct solution for such technical problems
is to virtualize everything and eliminate the antenna and radio:
http://www.hamsphere.com
http://qsonet.com/programs.html
With these, you can have all the frustration of DX, without the
expensive equipment and temperamental ionosphere.

Do try to have a better day (as measured on the emotion meter).

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