[Elecraft] FIELD DAY PREP

[David Gilbert]

A few years ago I was working NAQP SSB and came across this guy who was 
really loud but had such an overdriven signal nobody could copy him.  He 
kept calling CQ but nobody answered.  I finally threw my callsign out 
there and when he came back I told him he needed to back off on the mic 
gain if he wanted to make any contacts.  It took three steps of backing 
down his gain to get him to reasonable copy. He was over 10 db weaker 
but suddenly started running stations.

Cranking the knob to 11 is, as you say, totally counterproductive.

73,
Dave  AB7E



On 6/14/2019 10:52 AM, Bob McGraw K4TAX wrote:
> One of my major pet gripes for net control operators and contest operators is the fact they believe turning things up a bit with the thinking they will be heard a bit better    When in fact they are making their signal more difficult to copy.   If their station sounds good during SSB rag chew QSO's the the same settings should also be good for contests, Field Day, and when a net control.  The mentality of turning things up a wee bit is just pure B. S.
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> Bob, K4TAX
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