[Icom] W2IHY & Heil GM-4

Fri, 21 Mar 2003 19:15:20 EST

Use a second receiver with headphones to monitor your audio, transmit into a 
dummy load and adjust. This will allow you set mic and processor gain for 
full output power, you'll hear when you start to overdrive or distort.  
Depending on the second receiver's audio properties that pretty much how 
you'll sound to the rest of us. 

73,
Stan, KB6RQZ

In a message dated 03/21/2003 3:49:45 PM Pacific Standard Time, [email protected] 
writes:

> 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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> 
> 
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