[ICOM] Wave Files not keying IC746 VOX

[ve4xt at mymts.net]

No, it's not something other than one's own voice.

Phone contesters will often save their CQs and other passages as audio files for playback during a contest. 

It saves their voices from calling CQ for 48 hours, or however long the contest is. It is not unlike using the computer or a memory keyer for CW.

The typical format for such files can be .wav or .mp3 and the usual path is through the computer's sound card.

Please don't take offence at this question, but are there a lot of people here that unfamiliar with HF and contesting this comes as a surprise?

73, kelly, ve4xt 



Sent from my iPad

> On Jan 20, 2016, at 11:22 PM, KD7JYK DM09 <kd7jyk at earthlink.net> wrote:
> 
> :I am terribly sorry if I offended anyone and obviously I misunderstood what
> : he said.
> 
> What happened is a few different posts were quoted and things got out of 
> context, it happens, no biggie, really, but playing a .wav, or any other 
> audio through an amateur transmitter doesn't mean broadcasting or pirate 
> radio, just something other than ones own voice for whatever reason or 
> application.
> 
> In the late 90's I had a packet beacon that played a burst recorded on an 
> board of a recordable greeting card through an Icom 706MKII.  The 99 cent 
> card was a lot cheaper than a KPC-3 modem with the same end result.  The 
> quick and easy way to key the rig is to use VOX, in that application a 
> pre-amble of a few extra mS prevented clipped data.
> 
> Kurt 
> 
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