Reg Edwards wrote:
Roy says,
People who blindly assume the marks on their S-meters are 6 dB
apart
should take a good look at your calibration results.

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The calibration of S-meters, 3dB or 6dB per S-point, has nothing to do
with which antenna produces the stronger received signal. It is purely
a comparison. Just use the same meter throughout the tests.

Roy, you must be still be using that ancient receiver. No doubt it is
working fine. But you still refer, quite arbitraliry, to your personal
S-meter as the North American Calibration Standard. Must everybody
else fall into line? Not me!
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Reg.

I hate to call a liar a liar, but sometimes it's hard to take. You're
lying again, Reg.

I've never referred to my rig's meter as a calibration standard. I've
used it as an example many times of a meter whose response is far from
the 6 dB per S unit many people assume. It's my argument that any S-Unit
"standard" at all is of no use, except by misleading people into
thinking that it has some relation to the markings on their S meters.
Mike's measurements serve the same purpose.

And you've claimed your rig has an adjustment allowing calibration of
its S-meter to 6 dB per unit, but have never been willing to share the
type of rig or what the adjustment control designation is. Frankly, I
believe you're fabricating that, also.

It's sad -- you have a lot to offer, but somehow feel compelled to come
up with pure fabrications from time to time. It makes some of us view
everything else you say with some skepticism.

Roy Lewallen, W7EL