[Elecraft] Tweak for phone?

[Tom Wylie]

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
>
>
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