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Re: [CQ-Contest] Contest Rig

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Subject: Re: [CQ-Contest] Contest Rig
From: "Tom Osborne" <w7why@verizon.net>
Date: Tue, 06 Jun 2006 20:33:34 -0700
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>
> On Jun 1, 2006, at 11:42 PM, David Hachadorian wrote:
>
>> What you, in your expensive high-tech bubble, think is a
>> clear run frequency, may actually be terrible, with loud
>> stations only 200 hz on both sides.  Many S&P'ers are going
>> to tune right by you, because it appears to be an
>> undecipherable mishmash. If a run frequency doesn't sound
>> good with a pair of 500 Hz filters, it is probably not a
>> good frequency.

Bill wrote:

> I always thought you judged a frequency by the rate that it >produced, 
> not by how it sounded.

> The band sounded terrible. S9 noise everywhere, very few signals.
+++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
I think there is a lot of difference between S9 noise and very few signals, 
and 3 signals crammed into a 600 cycle portion of the spectrum   I don't see 
what this had to do with what Dave said.  73
Tom W7WHY

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