Absolutely! Nothing worse than trying to get a run going with no takers, or
walking the band and having to call too many times to get a simple mult,
only to find out I have a signal problem. Lots of time is wasted trying to
solve the problem, but almost always there is more time wasted discovering
that there is a problem! Several times over the years I have had a station
give me a report and end it with something like "seems like you have a
little RF in your audio". My response has always been "Thank You".
Tom N2SA
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From: owner-cq-contest@contesting.com
[mailto:owner-cq-contest@contesting.com] On Behalf Of
jrdavis@collins.rockwell.com
Sent: Tuesday, December 14, 1999 5:21 PM
To: CQ-Contest@contesting.com
Subject: Re: [CQ-Contest] 10m contest
Henry's question leads to a related one of mine:
If I hear a signal that sounds like cr*p, should I inform its owner? For
example, this weekend there was a LOUD CW signal out of 6 land that sounded
like
a chainsaw with a keyer. I was seriously tempted to send him a 595 to let
him
know that he had a problem. I'd want to know if my signal sounded that bad.
I'm aware that there are some parts of the world where hams are lucky to be
on
the air at all, chirp or no, and this doesn't necessarily apply to them. But
if
I took the time to tell you you had a signal problem, would you be happy
about
it or just irritated at having to log something other than 5NN?
73,
Jeff N0DY
n0dy@arrl.net
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