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G4EBT > WINPAC 31.12.07 00:17l 98 Lines 3236 Bytes #999 (0) @ WW
BID : 4F7344G4EBT
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Subj: Re: Colour suggestion for Winpack
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From: G4EBT@GB7FCR.#16.GBR.EU
To : WINPAC@WW
A few weeks back Mel, G4WYW, wrote:-
> Hi, thanks for downloading this message.
> I found the raw white screens that one sees with the basic Winpack gave
> me dizziness and headaches. I experimented with different colour
> settings and eventually settled on the scheme that has been with me for
> several years now.
> I have passed these settings along to friends via personal messages and
> they report that they prefer these settings themselves now.
> I copy my settings below for you to try. If you don't like then just
> revert back to what you were using before.
> Tip: You might wish to make a note of your current settings just in
> case!
> RECEIVE WINDOW 1
>
> HUE 23
> SAT 157
> LUM 180
> WRITE WINDOW (MESSAGES)
> HUE 103
> SAT 157
> LUM 180
> TRANSMIT WINDOW
> HUE 103
> SAT 172
> LUM 180
I visited Mel a couple of years back and noticed how "easy on the eye"
his screen looked with the above settings. I've been using the above
settings ever since.
They're well worth trying.
I guess Mel must have spent some time before he settled on those settings.
I've experimented with others but still come back to Mel's suggestion.
Drifting right off topic, at the time I was with Mel a "dowsing" debate
was raging on packet, and I have to say that as one of natures sceptics,
both my feet were planted firmly on the sceptics side of the fence.
However, Mel got a couple of bits of bent wire, walked across his garden,
and the wires swung together at one point. Mel said "that's where the
water main is buried".
I said he was having a laugh, but he showed me how to use the wires and
asked me to have a go with them. I willed them not to work, but in fact
they did.
I'm still a tad sceptical, and maybe it doesn't work for everyone in every
situation. However, in his TV programme a few months back entitled "The
Enemies of Reason", Richard Dawkins ("The God Delusion") did at least have
the good grace to say that he felt that the water diviners he challenged
were "genuinely sincere".
A group of dowsers agreed to submit to a double-blind trial.
Their success rate in finding water was about what you would expect by
chance. Dawkins said: "In some cases they were devastated that they
couldn't do it under those conditions".
But if the only people whose views carried any weight were sceptics,
I doubt we'd have found an explanation for gravity, radio signals,
magnetism, electron flow, and lots of other things which don't have
physical evidence to support the theories.
Having gained the ability to create fire, who would have thought you could
heat up rocks and get iron or copper from them? If sceptics had won the
day, maybe there'd have been no iron age or bronze age - just a stone age!
And if someone had said when the transistor was invented, that fifty years
later 4 million could be accommodated on the space of the dot at the end
of this sentence, people like me would have said "sure - if you say so".
Best wishes
David, G4EBT @ GB7FCR
British Vintage Wireless Society Member
G-QRP Club Member, No: 1339
Cottingham, East Yorkshire.
Message timed: 11:57 on 2007-Dec-20
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