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[AMPS] CW/SSB Tune Up

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Subject: [AMPS] CW/SSB Tune Up
From: g8gsq@qsl.net (Steve Thompson)
Date: Tue, 9 Oct 2001 07:40:05 +0100

-----Original Message-----
From: Jim Barber <N7CXI@SiliconPixels.com>
To: amps@contesting.com <amps@contesting.com>
To: <amps@contesting.com>
Date: 09 October 2001 04:57
Subject: Re: [AMPS] CW/SSB Tune Up


>
>
>>>Someone posted a few days ago that when tuning up a
>>>triode linear for peak out on SSB,  one should call a
>>>steady  "Helloooooo",  or I have also heard "woof,  woof",
>>>hi.  That this procedure is the "proper" SSB peak out
>>>tune up procedure.  Is it??
>>
>>It's bandini - except c. 27MHz.
>
>Only half kidding here - Try "four, four, four, four" (enunciate)
>and watch the meter.  Out of all the silliness tried, it seems
>to kick the hardest, at least with my voice, mics, and meters.
Some years ago, a friend in the mobile radio trade told me that 'five five
five....' gave the highest mod index when checking links and sets.

Steve


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