I am using DVS-2 at my FT-1000mp
and amp. Hope that you can tell me
the reality audio condition, while
listening my call at any contest...
- py2ny -
----- Original Message -----
From: <W8FJ@aol.com>
To: <CQ-Contest@contesting.com>
Sent: Tuesday, November 01, 2005 12:16 PM
Subject: [CQ-Contest] Poor Recorded Audio During the CQWW SSB Contest
> Alan, N7BF wrote the following:
>
> Now that I mentioned pre-recorded audio, some of the people need to hear
> what they sound like with their transmit volume turned up so loud and the
> compression on full blast, and then they pump a pre-recorded wave file
> into
> their transmitter that probably already has compression on it. Most of
> these sounded horrible even when they went live. You can hardly
> understand
> what they're saying and they're S9+ into my receiver. They were also MUCH
> wider in bandwidth than everyone else. I wasn't running wave files but I
> sure hope I didn't sound like that. I was thinking of recording some of
> these people and e-mailing them a wave file of what they sounded like.
> Don't know if it'd be worth it or not. They'd probably just get upset at
> me
> and say the distortion was all the fault of my receiver.
>
> I am primarily a cw operator so I'm certainly no expert of ssb, but I get
> into the SSB DX Contests to help bolster my club's aggregate score. The
> quality
> of the pre-recorded audio on a tremendous number of stations this year was
> simply awful! The splatter was also awful! The ability to copy weaker
> station
> was greatly compromised by the lousy audio of so many of the louder
> stations,
> and there were lots of VERY loud stations. When I could finally decipher
> a
> CQer's call and called him, his "non-recorded" answer to my call was quite
> intelligible. I can't believe that so many people have absolutely no idea
> how bad
> they sound when they hit the cq button on their keyboards.
>
> I'm looking forward to the cw weekend. CW has it's problems too. There
> will
> be stations with clicks on that mode, but as horrible as the clicks are,
> they're much easier to copy though than the stuff I endured this past
> weekend.
>
> Clean up your pre-recorded audio guys!!
>
>
> John, W8FJ...
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