On Mon, 09 Mar 2009 08:46:28 -0700, David Gilbert wrote: >It's pretty sad >when S9+20 signals are so distorted that they almost cannot be copied. >I swear some people must simply crank up the mic gain and compression >until the output power stops increasing.
I suspect that some of the worst offenders were running line level into a mic input and clipping it before the level control. Or perhaps overdriving the sound card when they record. >I'm totally not an audiophile >when it comes to contest intelligibility, but I'm always surprised at >how many of the big stateside contest stations have really crummy >signals. The South American contest stations seemed to be the worst by >far, although there were some extremely clean signals from many of the >single ops down there. Yes. There were far too many South Americans and JAs with audio so distorted I had to listen for nearly a minute to get their call, even though their signals were loud and in the clear. I made several posts to the cluster about badly distorted audio. Several big signals from KH6 were generating lots of splatter. >And YN2NB (operated by N1SNB), who according to radio-sport.net seems >poised to win World Single-Op High Power, had a terrific sounding signal. Yes, he did sound great! So did W3LPL and K3LR -- not "pretty," but quite punchy and intelligible. 73, Jim Brown 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
