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When I was working part of my job was the calibration of instruments for a company that made polyester material. We had equipment that was sent off on a schedule to check it met standards.? Our on line instruments were verified by those.

You have to know the limitations of the equipment.? I had a good discussion with a production engineer on this.? He cold not understand why the computer readout that was showing 3 decimal places of temperature at about 300 deg C was off by 2 whole numbers.? All this was coming from a probe that had 2 RTDs and 2 thermocouples? in the same 1/2 inch tube.? He wanted to know which one was correct.? I told him to take his choice as they all were.? The TC and rtd were only rated at 2 deg C at that temperature by the makers.? Then each went through a sending unit? that was calibrated to 1/2 of a percent or less, then to the computer unit that had about the same error.? When all the errors were added together we were lucky to get with in 1 % , mostly 2 %.? However we could read to 3 decimal places.

The whole point is that with most parts used in the uBITX and other ham grade equipment is only 5 % or maybe even less, it is pointless to measure a filter cutoff at 12 MHz to within a couple of cycles or a db down.? You may be able to build one that way, but not mass produce them.

I found the filter in my uBITX was too sharp for me and the audio quality on transmit was not what I wanted.? I Changed the capacitors in the filter area? with some standard components.? I can, but did not measure to 10 hz or less, but did get a general overall curve that met my standards, and my friends I talk to all the time said it sounded very good to them.

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On Wed, Aug 8, 2018 at 1:34 AM, m5fra2 via Groups.Io <m5fra2@...> wrote:

Alison,

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I should explain, it used to be my job, the repair and re-cal of scopes and spectrum analysers. It is different in a commercial/safety critical environment but without decent calibration you are working blind. Agreed, for amateur use there is a need to know where you are, roughly, and it all goes with knowing how to use the gear. Not saying that any of the tests done on the LPFs are wrong or that people do not know what they are doing but I think all users should be aware of the issues when using such gear.

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Colin ¨C M5FRA

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