I noticed that there is a trend towards blue LED's, and this is a
very bad idea.

I can't agree. I like blue backlighting, if it's not too dim. Not owning a
DE1102, I can't 'disagree' with your experience with its backlight, and
wouldn't pretend to. Perhaps it is too dim for you, not so for others.
I always like to modify and adjust the backlights on my radios anyway, if the
stock display is fatiguing or annoying. You may wish to go into your DE1102 and
change those LEDs to amber or some warmer, brighter color which serves your
eyes better than the stock blue does.
I find myself going the opposite direction, for example, the stock amber/orange
LEDs on my R75 were always glaringly annoying to me, so I eventually changed
them to green, then reversed the polarization filter on the LCD so that now
it's a dark background with bright alphanumerics, and THEN I swapped out the
green LEDs for white LEDs, which gives a sort of dark/deep blue background with
white alphanumerics... and in front of this, I can use any color of filter I
want, so one day it's red, another green, blue, purple, whatever suits me that
day. Now THAT is a flexible display modification, and has given me much better
results and avoidance of fatigue or eyestrain.
I've never liked amber/orange backlights much, so most of my display modifying
has been predicated on that personal taste. But that's just me.
Linus

GrtPmpkin32 wrote:

I swapped out the green LEDs for white LEDs, which gives a sort of dark/deep blue background with white alphanumerics

That's what I did with the display on my R8B. I removed the green LED's
in the array and replaced them with four white ones located in holes I
made in the ends of the display frame. The display background is now
aqua/blue with white charecters. I like it much better than the original
all green display.


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GrtPmpkin32 wrote:

I swapped out the green LEDs for white LEDs, which gives a sort of dark/deep blue background with white alphanumerics

That's what I did with the display on my R8B. I removed the green LED's
in the array and replaced them with four white ones located in holes I
made in the ends of the display frame. The display background is now
aqua/blue with white charecters. I like it much better than the original
all green display.


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RHF wrote:

STARMAN,

I thought that the Drake R8B was 'perfect' Right Out of the Box ?

It is if you like green.

You Modified your R8B - Go Stand in the Corner !
[ NO Touching your R8B for 24 Hours. ]

No problem. I'll use it with the remote control.


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That's what I did with the display on my R8B. I removed the green LED's
in the array and replaced them with four white ones located in holes I
made in the ends of the display frame. The display background is now
aqua/blue with white charecters. I like it much better than the original
all green display.


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Conan Ford schrieb:

The whole point of radio backlights is to make the display visible in the
dark. I noticed that there is a trend towards blue LED's, and this is a
very bad idea.

Well, at least it's not a brilliant one. If you want to illuminate
something without using too much valuable battery power, you best do
that with an LED that emits light in a spectral range where the human
eye is most sensitive (in darkness), so you can use one with less output
power. This would be roughly around 550 nm, with a tendency to higher
wavelengths as it gets darker. So in theory, something yellow to
greenish should be ideal, maybe also orange. In fact, Sony portables use
green backlighting.

Stephan
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