On 4/9/2014 6:56 PM, Milverton M. Swire wrote:
all the over active ALC, sprinkled with copious amount of Compression and marinated with an excessive amount of mic gain on any given contest weekend?
I put about 24 hours into WPX SSB a week or so ago, and the number of AWFUL signals nearly outnumbered the number of clean ones. At least two dozen times, I had to tell callers their audio was so bad that I couldn't copy them. In every case, mic gain was turned up FAR, FAR too high, and so was compression. There were dozens of stations calling CQ with audio so bad that I couldn't copy their calls, let alone try to make an exchange.
This is PURELY a matter of STUPIDITY on the part of the operator (and perhaps an unsportsmanly intent to produce splatter to keep other stations away from their sidebands), and there's no excuse for it. Most modern rigs have a monitor function lets the operator listen to his transmitted audio, and I'd bet that many of those who sound the worst have another rig that the COULD use to listen to their own RF signal.
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