[Elecraft] Field Day and FT-8

[Edward Mccann]

Well stated Nate.

As the Buddha said from his dying bed: 
“Strive on, untiringly.”

I am tempted to add, there but for a mentor administering with grace, go us all. 

Ed McCann
AG6CX

> On Jun 26, 2022, at 5:02 PM, Nate Bargmann <n0nb at n0nb.us> wrote:
> 
> * On 2022 26 Jun 17:18 -0500, Jim Rhodes wrote:
>> They weren't only on digital modes like that. Plenty of "all knobs all the
>> way to the right" operators on phone too. Of course that is nothing new on
>> Field Day.
> 
> I think there was at least one who didn't have the knob far enough to
> the right.  On the morning traffic net we had a station come up to pass
> a Field Day message.  The SSB audio was so poor that even though the
> signal strength was adequate, it was pinched to very high audio
> frequencies and only had adequate voice power on emphasized syllables
> and then it dropped down so far that it was unintelligible.  Two of us
> experienced ops with home stations could not make out the complete
> message after several tries.
> 
> The operator notes on the QRZ page to be almost completely a CW op.  I'm
> not sure if this was the op's first attempt at SSB or if the TX audio was
> never set up over the air with an experienced SSB op.  It's also
> possible the op has an unfortunate voice disability, I don't know as I'd
> never heard the op on the net frequency before.  I do hope the issue is
> sorted with a trusted friend.
> 
> We have to be willing to inform other ops when there are even minor
> issues and accept reports of such issues with our own signals with
> grace.
> 
> 73, Nate, N0NB
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