[Elecraft] Rotten Signals

[F5vjc]

I agree the number of 'really' terrible signals is disgraceful, and perhaps
a lot of it is due to the Contesting madness, Bigger Louder Fatter
mentality. Sometimes deliberate, I know.
However even in casual SSB operating the number of ops I hear,  especially
in Europe,  with really bad signals is incredible.
This amazingly seems to be of no consequence to the majority as I very
rarely hear bad audio or CW clicks being brought to the attention of the
offending op.

I often hear "Yes, your audio sounds great OM"... when it is clearly not !
Sadly this seems to be getting very much worse. Are we afraid to give an
honest report or just plain ignorant of what a good signal is.
Badly implemented ESSB is partly to blame I believe, ridiculously expensive
microphones and racks of audio processing gear :)

It is such a refreshing change to hear a really slick contest (or casual)
op with "great" communications audio, some guys clearly know how it's done.

Yes perhaps a TX monitor would be useful, but more education of how to
produce a good, clean effective and efficient signal would be even more so.

73, F5VJC




On 10 April 2014 07:26, W0MU Mike Fatchett <w0mu at w0mu.com> wrote:

> 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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