[Elecraft] Rotten Signals

[Jim Brown]

On 4/9/2014 6:56 PM, Milverton M. Swire wrote:
> all the over active ALC, sprinkled with copious amount of Compression and marinated with an excessive amount of mic gain on any given contest weekend?

I put about 24 hours into WPX SSB a week or so ago, and the number of 
AWFUL signals nearly outnumbered the number of clean ones. At least two 
dozen times, I had to tell callers their audio was so bad that I 
couldn't copy them. In every case, mic gain was turned up FAR, FAR too 
high, and so was compression. There were dozens of stations calling CQ 
with audio so bad that I couldn't copy their calls, let alone try to 
make an exchange.

This is PURELY a matter of STUPIDITY on the part of the operator (and 
perhaps an unsportsmanly intent to produce splatter to keep other 
stations away from their sidebands), and there's no excuse for it. Most 
modern rigs have a monitor function lets the operator listen to his 
transmitted audio, and I'd bet that many of those who sound the worst 
have another rig that the COULD use to listen to their own RF signal.

73, Jim K9YC