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 Rant & Rave...
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Rise And Shine

It's like being born, ... shocking and painful.

If we had a choice, we'd stay in there, but we don't. We have become what the Communists said we would, complacent and corrupt. This is compounded by the unwise legal unfettering of our corporate business form. Like a swarm of locusts, it overwhelmed the third world and then turned, and returned even more ravenous, to devour it's own seed stock. Modern corporate management makes a pack of hyena's look charming and intelligent. Greed is a powerful force best controlled.

Our constitutional system has, in theory, the ability to fix it's self. But that depends on the free exchange of ideas, now less likely with our major means of mass communication owned by international fascists, and a complacent population taking the easy way out, accepting what monopoly media shoves down their throats.

The Germans and the Russians in their formative periods before WW2 were only a few years removed from brutal dictatorship. The burning of the Reichstag/ Russian parliament/ World Trade Center/ whatever's next may have different effects here in this place and time. The U.S.A. is out in front of the world for Democratic history. Hopefully there will be a little less fear, and a little more alertness that leads to awareness, that leads to anger.

And now it is time to refresh freedom. Break out the hot tar and feathers. Let corrupt politicians feel pain and humiliation, followed by much more pain, as a direct result of their failure to carry out their duty under the Constitution. I have confidence that any succeeding leaders will learn to make law that benefits us all, unlike what's going on now...

It's like being born.

Chuck Felton 17JAN03



Step off the magic Button, Feature Fetish Train,
Light Up a Real Radio and Experience the Performance


1. A fast access synthesizer is the noisiest possible way to generate an RF signal. Particularly given the general level of comprehension evidenced by most digital designs I've evaluated.

2. The cleanest way, by far, to generate RF is with a well done crystal oscillator.

3. Phase noise-once its there, you can't get rid of it in real time. Both the amplitude and bandwidth characteristics of a given signal's noise modulation are arithmetically related to frequency. Double the frequency of any signal, double the noise and bandwidth of the noise (This is physics, the best case. Reality is much worse).

4. Heterodyne mixing adds the phase noise of all oscillators and signals mixed together, In other words, your signal's phase noise, after the final conversion, will be at least the sum of the noise of all oscillators used for conversion, including the BFO.

5. At some point, it must become clear that a design goal should be to generate minimum total noise. The higher frequency oscillators should be crystal. The variable oscillator (the noisy one) should be at a low frequency. (R390 A for instance)

6. A remote cut off vacuum tube amp or mixer with a large grid leak resistor does not hard limit, or saturate. If signal exceeds bias, signal peaks are rectified, the operating point moves to include the entire signal, and it keeps on cooking. This feature, combined with the fact that high impedance tube circuitry requires resonant filters at both input and output of a given stage, accounts for the robust real world performance of older tube radios of good design.

7. In firm, other words, these magic button, rinky dink plastic, you can do anything (But you won't. It's really just about communication over unpredictable paths, not Feature Fetish.) digital radios will not and cannot do the job when the going gets rough. Their designers did from the beginning, and continue to do everything wrong...

8. Did you ever try to tell one of those so called engineers, two hour lunch, arrogant jerks anything? Save your breath. Screw 'em. Buy one of my upgraded receivers. A-B it with your SUX 6000 or whatever on a difficult path or crowded band, and "Read 'em and Weep".

Chuck Felton
Felton Electronic Design
18 Feb 01

What part of "Shall make no law" do our politicians and judiciary fail to comprehend?
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