...and speaking of exploding heads
From time to time a new thread will ask the question: What's the
* BEST * external speaker for Hamateur radio use?
Invariably I'll say something to the effect of having good luck with thrift shop orphans (bookshelf stereo electronics gone kaput, speakers still good) as long as they're of the 4 Ohm persuasion and reasonably efficient. Translation: Single driver bass-reflex with a whizzer cone. Within hours a dissenting opinion will assert that only a proper
communications grade speaker designed specifically for SSB / CW use is worth having. Even if they are in the $100.00+ price class. If the advertising specifies communication grade, that's whatcha' want. Like the $2.00 orphan is overpriced. Or the AF amp in the radio is broadband. And a mostly flat response curve is a bad characteristic for a speaker.
Then I wonder if these are the same folks running an All Band WonderTenna. You know what that is... Something that makes you wonder who'd pay $250.00 for an antenna made from $20.00 worth of wire and marketed by an eighth of a page advert in QST that features the word 'miracle'.
