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[W0MU Mike Fatchett]

Prior to cluster and RBN we would just be listening to band noise and no 
callers.......... :)

Mike W0MU

W0MU-1 CC Cluster w0mu.net


On 12/5/2011 4:05 PM, Luis V. Romero wrote:
> Ron:
>
>> Maybe I'm just a dinosaur waiting for the next asteroid, but
>> as a Novice I learned it was bad practice ever to transmit on
>> top of another station for any reason and, when listening for
>> calls, always tune up and down a bit from the calling frequency.
>>
> Its the cluster/Skimmer feeding frenzy effect!  Although Im not all that
> rare, in FQP and in SS Im a bit rare (My section is West Central Florida)
> and I always know when Im spotted by the pile of callers that call zero
> beat.
>
>> It's good to see that practice still produces results.
> I agree.  But not everyone does, and I think those that do are the minority.
> Such is life.
>
>> I frequently have the AGC off and protect my ears with the
>> hard limiter built into the K3: CONFIG:AF LIM.
>>
> I use AF LIMIT as well.  I find AF LIMIT is quite useful on 160 and 80
> especially here in the south.  A setting of 17-19 tunrs lightning crashes
> into white noise and you can still hear signals below it. Alas, my cheap
> compressor works pretty well for what it is, and it beats having it sit on
> the table as a paperweight.
>
> I hate things that are not being used.  :)
>
> -lu-W4LT-
>
>
>
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