... playing arm chair engineer is pointless.
Maybe so, yet I find the insights, and even speculations, of men like Greg and Tele man interesting. I'm still interested in what the problem is even if there is nothing we can do about it. Even if there are controlled environmental facilities, it seems they'll still miss things that turn up in real world circumstances.
BTW, sometime ago I posted a graph of my reception with my original VP with temps approaching -40 when someone here basically told me I didn't know what I was talking about when I said it didn't seem to be much affected by temperature:
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So I think my case does show a VP console can in fact operate down to -40, any quality control issues or such aside. I don't know how the fancy spread spectrum frequency hopping may change things, but I think it is a little funny that the VP2 was supposed to solve things like connection problems, but my old VP(1) seems to have less problems than many VP2s many years newer.