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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body lang=EN-US link=blue vlink=purple><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>Great! That will be at least one reader…<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>I should also mention if anyone has a hankering to know the IMD of their favorite device, I’ll be happy to test it, since the tester now pretty-much just sits around gathering dust.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>-Doug<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'>From:</span></b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'> Scott Traurig [mailto:scott.traurig@gmail.com] <br><b>Sent:</b> Tuesday, July 11, 2017 12:54 PM<br><b>To:</b> Doug Ronald<br><b>Cc:</b> hpsdr<br><b>Subject:</b> Re: [hpsdr] Tech discussion on list (new subject line)<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><div><p class=MsoNormal>Oops, just found the link to the article at the bottom of your rejection letter page! I will read it!<o:p></o:p></p><div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal>73!<o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal>Scott<o:p></o:p></p><div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><div><p class=MsoNormal>On Tue, Jul 11, 2017 at 3:52 PM, Scott Traurig <<a href="mailto:scott.traurig@gmail.com" target="_blank">scott.traurig@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<o:p></o:p></p><div><p class=MsoNormal>Doug,<o:p></o:p></p><div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal>It's a pretty standard rejection letter that many, many people receive everyday from nearly any publication on the planet.<o:p></o:p></p><div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal>The standard formula for a rejection letter in the publishing industry is:<o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div><div><div><p class=MsoNormal>Say thanks.<o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal>Deliver the news.<o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal>Give the main reason.<o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal>Offer hope.<o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal>And it pretty much follows that formula. It's not rude at all. Rejection is always tough!<o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal>73,<o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal>Scott/w-u-2-o<o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal>P.S. You could publish on this list.<o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><div><p class=MsoNormal>On Tue, Jul 11, 2017 at 3:43 PM, Doug Ronald <<a href="mailto:doug@dougronald.com" target="_blank">doug@dougronald.com</a>> wrote:<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:12.0pt'>***** High Performance Software Defined Radio Discussion List *****<br><br>I have a private message from someone asking how I measured that 53 dBm IMD3 mentioned in my post on 7/10/17, so in the spirit of those requests to continue technical discussion here, I'll answer that question even though it could be considered noise relative to openhpsdr.<br><br>Answer: I made my own tester. I submitted an article on it to QEX, where it was rejected in a rather rude letter. Here is a link, and the submitted manuscript link is at the bottom of the page...<br><a href="http://w6dsr.com/IMDtester/index.html" target="_blank">http://w6dsr.com/IMDtester/index.html</a><br><br>-Doug, W6DSR<o:p></o:p></p></div></div></div></div></div></div></div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div></div></div></div></body></html>