{"id":113,"date":"2008-03-17T20:41:11","date_gmt":"2008-03-18T00:41:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/w4kaz.com\/qth\/?p=113"},"modified":"2008-03-17T22:00:21","modified_gmt":"2008-03-18T02:00:21","slug":"radio-comparisons","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/w4kaz.com\/qth\/?p=113","title":{"rendered":"Radio Contests of a Different Sort"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Rob Sherwood, of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sherweng.com\" title=\"Sherwood Engineering website\">Sherwood Engineering<\/a>  has posted an audio recording of his <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sherweng.com\/audio\/Barc-Edited.mp3\" title=\"Rob Sherwood discussion, radio testing\">recent presentation to the Boulder Colorado ARC<\/a>.  He discusses his testing of various radios, explaining his methodologies, and discussing what he feels are problems that need to be addressed in recent radio designs.  He also discusses areas he thinks need improving in the testing itself.  If you have never seen it, there is also a summary of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sherweng.com\/presentation.html\" title=\"Comparison chart of common contest radios\">common contest rigs<\/a>.  Also, there&#8217;s a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sherweng.com\/table.html\" title=\"Full list of all radios tested by Sherwood\">more comprehensive comparison<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Think of it as a discussion of &#8216;radio contests&#8217;&#8211;except the radios themselves are the competitors.<\/p>\n<p>The presentation makes great background listening while you surf the net, or take it along on a lonely commute.  No moving pictures&#8230; Not a problem for you RADIO folks, aina?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Rob Sherwood, of Sherwood Engineering has posted an audio recording of his recent presentation to the Boulder Colorado ARC. He discusses his testing of various radios, explaining his methodologies, and discussing what he feels are problems that need to be addressed in recent radio designs. He also discusses areas he thinks need improving in the testing itself. If you have never seen it, there is also a summary of common contest rigs. Also, there&#8217;s a more comprehensive comparison.<\/p>\n<p>Think of it as a discussion of &#8216;radio contests&#8217;&#8211;except the radios themselves are the competitors.<\/p>\n<p>The presentation makes great background listening while you surf the net, or take it along on a lonely commute. No moving pictures&#8230; Not a problem for you RADIO folks, aina?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[4],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/w4kaz.com\/qth\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/113"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/w4kaz.com\/qth\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/w4kaz.com\/qth\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/w4kaz.com\/qth\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/w4kaz.com\/qth\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=113"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/w4kaz.com\/qth\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/113\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/w4kaz.com\/qth\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=113"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/w4kaz.com\/qth\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=113"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/w4kaz.com\/qth\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=113"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}