[Elecraft] Rotten Signals

[W0MU Mike Fatchett]

I like the CQ messages with a different voice that comes back to you.  
Usually the CQ message from a certain area is really bad sounding but 
the real ops sound much better.

Sadly I believe many intentionally distort their audio to make their 
signals wider.

Mike W0MU

On 4/9/2014 11:09 PM, Jim Brown wrote:
> 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
>
>
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