On Mon, 6 Sep 2004 10:01:15 +0000 (UTC), "Reg Edwards"
wrote:


"Walter Maxwell" wrote
If you question my statements above see the data from my measurements
using
professional grade instruments in either QEX, May/Jun 2001, Chapter 19 in
Reflections II,

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The accuracy of measurements depends on who uses the instruments rather than
on what the manufacturer says in his sales catalogue. I'd much prefer just
to take your word for it, Walt. The manufacturer's type number is
superfluous - it sounds like a gratuitous advert.
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Reg, G4FGQ

Thanks for the compliment, Reg, that you prefer to take my word for it. However,
the reason we include the manufacturer is not as a gratuitutous advert, but to
distinguish between the Cadillacs (Hewlett-Packard and General Radio, among a
few others) and the non-descripts. The Cadillacs are professional, precision
instruments, which, when used by knowledgeable people, provide data that can be
relied upon.

Without knowledge of the quality of the measuring device the reader is
justifiably suspicious of the data.

Walt