I generally stay out of these kinds of radio discussion because what I have to add most likely would not be swallowed very well But here we go.
I would ask all of you that have worked on radios as I have virtually every day of my life for the last 50 years what is the criteria for stating radio one that is identical to radio 2 will talk farter? what would radio 1 need to do to talk farther than radio 2? In a more than feckless way? I mean if the brag is our radios talk farther than anyone else's how much farther is that and please, by all means, show me what makes that radio do that?
If radio one can barely be heard at 10 miles and you can't really hear what they are saying what would radio 2 need to do to be heard at a significantly longer distance? to qualify it for be worth several hundred dollars more?
My point is it all sounds like apples and oranges stuff if one radio is being bragged up to talk farther then, by all means, take the time to prove it Hear is how we did it at a division of Hustler I worked for way back when. It worked with antenna systems and would work the same fashion with radios.
1) Use 2 cars exactly the same body style:
2) Use 2 radios exactly the same:
3) One radio tuned by the competition and One tuned by you "'whoever you is"
4) Park these cars in exactly the same spot to test them: should be something like the Salt Flats "no obstacles"
5) Both cars must have exactly the same antenna mounted in exactly the same position with the same coax and coax length showing exactly the same match at exactly the same power levels
6) Both radios must be fed with exactly the same voltage with no drop in line voltage under transmit.
7) Each must be tested within 5 minutes of each other as this should eliminate any kind of conditions that would be considered atmospheric in nature.
8) Now you will use a high quality active Field Strength Meter (Pictured below) for this test not a radio and it will be the same field strength meter for both radios. mounted at exactly the same elevation and tuned to the frequency used to test and not adjusted at any time to compensate for ether radio after all if these are tests of ones ability to tune then they better both be on the money!
9) The radios will be keyed with a 50% modulated 1000 Hz audio tone for 10 seconds.
If you believe I have left any procedure out of this experiment please add to the list we must be certain to cover all the variables.
Once we can all agree on these procedures as very solid and ones that will provide us with results that can't be subjective we can then suggest "No" Demand that if you are going to make these claims then these are the criteria we as radio techs can wrap our minds around, sind our teeth into. I would be glad to function as an independent testing facility for these claimants "For a fee of Course" Thanks
The above tests should be repeated 3 times over a defined period of time and the results averaged against each other.
May the testing games begin.
I would ask all of you that have worked on radios as I have virtually every day of my life for the last 50 years what is the criteria for stating radio one that is identical to radio 2 will talk farter? what would radio 1 need to do to talk farther than radio 2? In a more than feckless way? I mean if the brag is our radios talk farther than anyone else's how much farther is that and please, by all means, show me what makes that radio do that?
If radio one can barely be heard at 10 miles and you can't really hear what they are saying what would radio 2 need to do to be heard at a significantly longer distance? to qualify it for be worth several hundred dollars more?
My point is it all sounds like apples and oranges stuff if one radio is being bragged up to talk farther then, by all means, take the time to prove it Hear is how we did it at a division of Hustler I worked for way back when. It worked with antenna systems and would work the same fashion with radios.
1) Use 2 cars exactly the same body style:
2) Use 2 radios exactly the same:
3) One radio tuned by the competition and One tuned by you "'whoever you is"
4) Park these cars in exactly the same spot to test them: should be something like the Salt Flats "no obstacles"
5) Both cars must have exactly the same antenna mounted in exactly the same position with the same coax and coax length showing exactly the same match at exactly the same power levels
6) Both radios must be fed with exactly the same voltage with no drop in line voltage under transmit.
7) Each must be tested within 5 minutes of each other as this should eliminate any kind of conditions that would be considered atmospheric in nature.
8) Now you will use a high quality active Field Strength Meter (Pictured below) for this test not a radio and it will be the same field strength meter for both radios. mounted at exactly the same elevation and tuned to the frequency used to test and not adjusted at any time to compensate for ether radio after all if these are tests of ones ability to tune then they better both be on the money!
9) The radios will be keyed with a 50% modulated 1000 Hz audio tone for 10 seconds.
If you believe I have left any procedure out of this experiment please add to the list we must be certain to cover all the variables.
Once we can all agree on these procedures as very solid and ones that will provide us with results that can't be subjective we can then suggest "No" Demand that if you are going to make these claims then these are the criteria we as radio techs can wrap our minds around, sind our teeth into. I would be glad to function as an independent testing facility for these claimants "For a fee of Course" Thanks
The above tests should be repeated 3 times over a defined period of time and the results averaged against each other.
May the testing games begin.
