* On 2022 26 Jun 17:18 -0500, Jim Rhodes wrote: > They weren't only on digital modes like that. Plenty of "all knobs all the > way to the right" operators on phone too. Of course that is nothing new on > Field Day.
I think there was at least one who didn't have the knob far enough to the right. On the morning traffic net we had a station come up to pass a Field Day message. The SSB audio was so poor that even though the signal strength was adequate, it was pinched to very high audio frequencies and only had adequate voice power on emphasized syllables and then it dropped down so far that it was unintelligible. Two of us experienced ops with home stations could not make out the complete message after several tries. The operator notes on the QRZ page to be almost completely a CW op. I'm not sure if this was the op's first attempt at SSB or if the TX audio was never set up over the air with an experienced SSB op. It's also possible the op has an unfortunate voice disability, I don't know as I'd never heard the op on the net frequency before. I do hope the issue is sorted with a trusted friend. We have to be willing to inform other ops when there are even minor issues and accept reports of such issues with our own signals with grace. 73, Nate, N0NB -- "The optimist proclaims that we live in the best of all possible worlds. The pessimist fears this is true." Web: https://www.n0nb.us Projects: https://github.com/N0NB GPG fingerprint: 82D6 4F6B 0E67 CD41 F689 BBA6 FB2C 5130 D55A 8819 ______________________________________________________________ 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
