On Mon, 24 May 2010 22:32:19 -0500, "
wrote:

You say:


"Well, duh! That's the way the system is designed (pads are a *lot*
cheaper than amplifiers and once the signal is in the mud no amplifier
can help it",

and yet you say we are wrong saying too strong a signal is more
common than too weak

Methinks you just want to be argumentative