[Elecraft] P3: Can the Panadapter be used with a Ten Tec

[Lu Romero]

True, Bill.  I have also found out that different vintage
Heil ProSet DX4's have different output levels and frequency
response.  The older ones have hotter output than the newer
ones.  Also needed to be taken into account are male vs
female voices (we have female ops as well). And different
mic technique.  Lots of variables!  Im trying to minimize
them as much as possible.

I realize that different voices will give different results,
but if you find a good "normal" from a compression and mic
standpoint and stick with it across all the rigs, and keep
people's fingers out of the settings when they are trying to
"help", you dont end up with mush and splatter.

And the key in any contest is for them to UNDERSTAND the
exchange, so the more articulate and clear we make the
transmission, the easier it is for the other guy to copy us
correctly and log us.  We aint talkin' about broadcast
quality hi-fi here, we're talking about being heard and,
most importantly, being understood above the cacophony in a
phone contest with lots of QRM and mis-tuned amp IMD flying
about. 

Actually, last year we decided to "assign" headsets to
particular radios due to the idiosyncracies of the rigs and
the mics. That rule lasted most of last year's contest, lets
see how long it lasts this year :)

You can have a big signal, but if they cant understand it,
you may as well run QRP.  Just cuz the meters are swingin'
WAAAY to the right dont mean they can understand what youre
sayin'

-lu-

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Message: 31
Date: Tue, 25 Oct 2011 09:47:26 -0400
From: nr4c <nr4c at widomaker.com>
Subject: Re: [Elecraft] P3: Can the Panadapter be used with
a Ten Tec
    Orion 1?
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Pardon me, but I have read a lot of the traffic on this
topic, and some 
very good ideas have been considered.  Recorded audio into
the mic jack 
or a sound source as in a 'pink' noise, or ''white' noise
allows the 
radio to be adjusted.  I have a K3, so I can use it with the
P3 to 
analyze the audio of my other radio(s) while transmitting
into a 'dummy' 
load.

But, none of these account for the difference in mics.  A
station with 
a dozen radios and a dozen mic is still going to show
differences in 
transmitted audio due to different mics and mic
usage/voices.

I'm glad I don't have to do this!

..bill   nr4c