[Elecraft] Ten Tec never sounded so good!

[Bob McGraw - K4TAX]

I agree with Gary on this.  There's lots of bad sounding signals on the 
bands today.  And there's a few good sounding ones too.  Most of the bad 
sounding ones are the result of improperly adjusted radios and associated 
equipment coupled with poor mike technique.  As to the good sounding ones, 
those operators have figured it out and practice it daily.

73
Bob, K4TAX




----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Gary Gregory" <garyvk4fd at gmail.com>
To: "lstavenhagen" <lstavenhagen at hotmail.com>
Cc: <elecraft at mailman.qth.net>
Sent: Wednesday, April 14, 2010 9:24 PM
Subject: Re: [Elecraft] Ten Tec never sounded so good!


> LS,
>
> You should listen to what we hear in VK Land.
>
> On SSB it isn't so much the folks on ESSB, although we have a few of those
> here also unfortunately, but rather the poorly adjusted 1KW plus 
> amplifierrs
> and badly adjusted audio that causes me to screw up my nose and do a quick
> QSY..(:-))
>
> I no longer answer just "any" CQ these days, but rather I pick those with
> good sounding stations and work them instead of putting up with the not so
> good signals that are quite common on the bands these days.
>
> JM2cW
>
> 73's
> Gary
>
>
>
> On Thu, Apr 15, 2010 at 12:04 PM, lstavenhagen 
> <lstavenhagen at hotmail.com>wrote:
>
>>
>> Well I'm not talking about speakers specifically. Just the the motivation
>> for
>> wideband audio response in general, i.e. ESSB and so on.
>> As I've said before, the primary reason I don't use the voice modes is 
>> that
>> it's like trying to have a relaxing talk to a friend at a basketball 
>> game.
>> It's fine when the band isn't crowded, but as soon as someone starts
>> butting
>> in 1 kc above or below you, the last thing, seems to me, that you want is
>> the other stations using wideband, hi-fi audio. I thought that was what a
>> traditional narrow communications freq. response was for.
>>
>> I understand the motivation for low distortion (I have some hearing 
>> damage
>> from years as a musician), tho. And I did order a mic with my K3 for
>> testing
>> purposes (i.e. to make sure the mic inputs worked, I think the K3 will be
>> my
>> first rig with an actual working audio section hi hi) and the audio in 
>> the
>> monitor sure enough sounds very clean.
>>
>> I guess that's what I love about digital and CW. You're not stuck with
>> nearly as much QRM especially with rigs like the K2 and K3 where you can
>> just squeeze the other signals out as much as you want.
>>
>> Oh well, I was just curious, mostly because of my unfamiliarity with the
>> voice modes, I suppose.
>>
>> 73,
>> LS
>> W5QD
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