[Mep-dev] Thank you for feedback so far + questions

[Michelle]

Thank you to everyone that has given me feedback so far about the presentation! I'll incorporate as much as possible today and make another cut of the slides + notes. 

Not everything in the PDF will be on the screen. The text-heavy slides are an attempt to outline the presentation. As Grant and several others pointed out to me, lots of text up on the screen is more of a distraction to the audience than an asset. I'm fully on board with that advice. 

The section about the use of transverters is (currently) kind of ham-handed, and I have some very good feedback that I believe will make the case for transverter => SDR more clear. There is hardly ever a case where one technology seamlessly transitions over to another. Incremental progress is the rule, rather than the exception. However, some amount of force must be applied in order to shift a paradigm, so I want to find a way to state that concept clearly. 

Can anyone think of a comparison, illustration, story, parable, or other dramatic literary or technical device to get the point across? 

Kerry Banke N6IZW is going to do his best to get some images from the SBMS transverter project (which is our starting point on the RF end for MEP) in order to show the phase and bandwidth characteristics. 

I'd like to find a graphic that shows why phase stability matters to us that is both technically correct and also visually appealing. Would an eye diagram do the trick? Is everything there in an eye diagram that we want to say about controlling phase noise being a prime motivator for transverter => SDR? Or, am I off the reservation on that assertion?

 -Michelle W5NYV


Potestatem obscuri lateris nescis.