[SOC] complaining

[Jay and Violet Stanfield]

I had a guy comment on my signal  ---
 but what does a drowning duck sound like ?
jay in nemo



On Sun, Aug 4, 2013 at 7:25 PM, D.J.J. Ring, Jr. <n1ea at arrl.net> wrote:

> Mike,
>
> I think you have to cut some people some slack.  For many years before I
> was instructed, I thought that military sets such as the ARC-5 had chirp.
>  I was wrong.  Most do not.
>
> Todays radio transmitters all have a T9X tone.  The RST has the T portion
> going up to 9 and there are modifiers for C, Chirp, K, Key clicks, and X,
> for Crystal control (Xtal control) sounding.  So today's radios are 339X,
> 579X, 599X but most don't put the X down anymore.
>
> The ARC-5 usually doesn't have a chirp as much as it has a frequency swing
> as the voltage changes.
>
> I contacted an Eastern European, probably Ukraine, and I gave him a 479C
> and I listened to his signal more closely, he didn't have a chirp, there
> was no instability on the start of the transmitter, but a continuing change
> in tone as the frequency generating oscillator stabilized.  Master
> Oscillator Power Amplifier circuits like the ARC-5 almost always had this
> type of instability, that's why we had the X in the RST.  If you had the X
> you had gotten your transmitter working so well that it sounded just like a
> crystal controlled set.
>
> It is possible to have an ARC-5 chirp but that can be fixed:
> http://radios4fun.net/index.php?p=1_19_Stinson-s-ARC-5-Tx-Notes
>
> 73
>
> David N1EA
>
>
> On Sun, Aug 4, 2013 at 8:02 PM, <w7dra at juno.com> wrote:
>
> > you know this list is  a good place to complain about anything......i get
> > on the air (80m mainly rock bound now) because if i use a VFO (arc5 or
> > homebrew depending) everybody complains that i am drifting or have a
> > chirp or something that doesn't matter to me in the least.
> >
> > and they wont just say "569C' or something like that they go on  and on
> > and on about what my signal sounds like and that i should send my rig in
> > to get it fixed by a professional.
> >
> > you dont think i know what my signal sounds like? hey, if i get most of
> > my power supply energy out on somewhat the VFO frequency or a harmonic i
> > consider myself lucky
> >
> > arg
> >
> > mike w7dra
> >
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