[Icom] W2IHY & Heil GM-4

[Chris BONDE]

I have found only one setting and left it at that.

I agree with you that somepeople are attempting to achieve something that 
does not interest a number of others, and, in a lot of cases just mess up 
their own audio.  HOWEVER< this is amateur experimental radio and all 
things are availabe for testing, except others patience by deliberate 
interference.

Chris opr VE7HCB

At 03:56 PM 2003-03-21 -0700, you wrote:
>At 12:02 3/21/2003, you wrote:
>>Dean:
>>I donot know if you meant the comment as a slam or just 
>>trolling.  However, how does one adjust all these things on these new 
>>modern radios?  Some of the hams have lotsa dinaros to spend, others 
>>donot.  I adjusted everything according to one spec then was told that 
>>was not good then adjusted to another spec ...   ....    ....
>>
>>So now I have left my rig where it is.  If I make  contact, I make a 
>>contact, if I donot I donot.  I think that I can make some adjustments to 
>>increase radiation but that may degrade audio plus some other stuff.  The 
>>main thing is that most hams donot hear themselves, so a polite 
>>suggestion is warranted.
>>
>>No implication, no flames, just what I think is going on.
>>
>>Chris opr VE7HCB
>
>
>Hi Chris.  Well, I was partly tongue-in-cheek and partly pure sarcasm.  I 
>keep hearing people who mold, model, shape, control, compress, bore, port 
>and relieve their audio sigs on various rigs.
>
>Invariably, the audio I hear sounds molded, modeled, shaped, controlled, 
>compressed, bored, ported and relieved.  IOW, anything but good and 
>normal.  I fail to understand how you can get a Hi-Fi 0Hz to 30kHz audio 
>signal packed into a 3kHz bandpass.
>
>Not to disparage all of these EQ'ed signals because many do sound pretty 
>good.  But a bunch are overdriven, wide, hollow and distorted beyond 
>belief.  When one asks these kind folks to reduce their gain (or 
>whatever), they often get indignant and tell you that they have spent 
>hundreds of dollars to get the "perfectly" shaped audio signal and that it 
>must be your receiver.
>
>I have a 756ProII and have yet to change the audio in any way.  The 
>reports I get have ALL been positive.  I use a Pryme Desk mike and it 
>seems to behave nicely. I bust pile-ups with relative ease and apparently 
>get along with hams as little as 2-3 kHz away.
>
>In any event, ask someone who is familiar with your voice to help you make 
>adjustments and try to find two sets of settings.  One for normal 
>conversation and the other to assist in busting the pile-ups.  In both 
>cases, try to consider sideband splatter.
>
>Dean
>
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