At 09:57 PM 11/17/02 -0500, TOMK5RC@aol.com wrote:
>First time in many moons in SS SSB. The caliber of operators was excellent.
>Courtesy was everywhere.
>
>Great to hear so many new calls and so many folks mentoring new ops.
>
Indeed ... and the proliferation of multis was where a lot of the new folks
were apparently. It was great to work folks with 01 and 02 checks, too.
Let me diverge to an entirely different subject. I am not a phone
contester, but get on in SSB SS to make points for my club. This year, I
had disposed of my Rigblaster, and had no effective way of coupling
hum-free audio from my sound card to my 2-radio box, so I was obliged to
say everything myself.
After an hour or so, I would find myself totally running out of voice --
throat getting sore, hoarseness setting in, etc.
Other than recorded audio, are there any special techniques that phone
contesters use to avoid vocal fatigue?
73, Pete N4ZR
Sometimes a tower is just a tower
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