I agree the number of 'really' terrible signals is disgraceful, and perhaps a lot of it is due to the Contesting madness, Bigger Louder Fatter mentality. Sometimes deliberate, I know. However even in casual SSB operating the number of ops I hear, especially in Europe, with really bad signals is incredible. This amazingly seems to be of no consequence to the majority as I very rarely hear bad audio or CW clicks being brought to the attention of the offending op.
I often hear "Yes, your audio sounds great OM"... when it is clearly not ! Sadly this seems to be getting very much worse. Are we afraid to give an honest report or just plain ignorant of what a good signal is. Badly implemented ESSB is partly to blame I believe, ridiculously expensive microphones and racks of audio processing gear :) It is such a refreshing change to hear a really slick contest (or casual) op with "great" communications audio, some guys clearly know how it's done. Yes perhaps a TX monitor would be useful, but more education of how to produce a good, clean effective and efficient signal would be even more so. 73, F5VJC On 10 April 2014 07:26, W0MU Mike Fatchett <w...@w0mu.com> wrote: > I like the CQ messages with a different voice that comes back to you. > Usually the CQ message from a certain area is really bad sounding but the > real ops sound much better. > > Sadly I believe many intentionally distort their audio to make their > signals wider. > > Mike W0MU > > > On 4/9/2014 11:09 PM, Jim Brown wrote: > >> 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. >> >> 73, Jim K9YC >> >> >> ______________________________________________________________ >> Elecraft mailing list >> Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft >> Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm >> Post: mailto:Elecraft@mailman.qth.net >> >> This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net >> Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html >> Message delivered to w...@w0mu.com >> > > ______________________________________________________________ > Elecraft mailing list > Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft > Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm > Post: mailto:Elecraft@mailman.qth.net > > This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net > Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html > Message delivered to foxfive....@gmail.com > ______________________________________________________________ Elecraft mailing list Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm Post: mailto:Elecraft@mailman.qth.net This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html Message delivered to arch...@mail-archive.com
