Different sounds for different purposes. I have found that even subtle
changes in a pile-up can make you stand out enough to be heard. One more
click on the SP, a little better shape on the EQ, pointing the beam a few
more degrees, making sure the amp is tuned...it all adds up! For rag-chew
with good signals like we usually get on 75 meters at night, then fidelity
is the name of the game.
That is what is so nice about the current crop of equipment available at
reasonable prices...you can change from one extreme to another with just a
few adjustments. Things have come a long way since the days of my old
SB-100!
Ron Castro
Chief Technical Officer
Results Radio, LLC
N6IE
www.N6IE.com
(Formerly N6AHA)
----- Original Message -----
From: "Dennis OConnor" <ad4hk2004@yahoo.com>
To: <tentec@contesting.com>
Sent: Friday, December 22, 2006 8:31 AM
Subject: [TenTec] Orion 1 & 2 "Talk Power" problem
Well, if you are happy, I am happy... And what I am going to say is not
rebuttal to you, etc., but simply how I see the issue...
Other than maybe the "drive it till it howls to work dx" issue, I simply
do not understand the need... For those who just 'have' to see the meters
on the amp stand up there, change to FM! Or change the shunt on the meter
so it pins on every syllable...
I go way back... I have tried/used/heard/discarded: clippers,
compressors, supermodulators, RF processors, and on, and on, over the past
40+ years... I have a shelf full of what are collectors items... Datong,
you name it...
Do we walk around with a DSP and a speaker for having a conversation with
our friends, spouse, boss, so that our voice is loud? If we did our pool
of friends would thin out rapidly...
Speech has a normal dynamic range, that is the ratio of the peaks to the
valleys... If the signal is audible in my receiver and I want it louder I
turn up my audio...
Many of the phone signals on the bands <makes me glad I am mostly CW) are
atrocious... Oh yeah, they are "loud", but so is a jack hammer, and just
about as pleasant to listen to...
And no, I am not one of the 10KC wide, super hi-fi crowd...
OK, I'm off the soap box, some one elses turn...
Cheers ... denny / k8do
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