Sometimes the "voice" is OK but when they put on their voice keyers they are overmodulating and splatter like hell!
Tom GM4FDM Jim Brown wrote: > 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 > > > --- > avast! Antivirus: Inbound message clean. > Virus Database (VPS): 090308-0, 08/03/2009 > Tested on: 09/03/2009 16:53:56 > avast! - copyright (c) 1988-2009 ALWIL Software. > http://www.avast.com > > > > > -- So I met the bloke who invented crosswords today. I can't remember his name, it's P something T something R. --- avast! Antivirus: Outbound message clean. Virus Database (VPS): 090308-0, 08/03/2009 Tested on: 09/03/2009 19:19:17 avast! - copyright (c) 1988-2009 ALWIL Software. http://www.avast.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
