Steve Baron - KB3MM wrote:
>Turning on a radio does not seem like a difficult task. <gr>
>
>If you want to know if the right stuff gets sent to the radio and will be
>sent on the air, listen to the radio.
>
That's not very helpful for the guy who is pre-configuring a bunch of
networked PCs on a table, ahead of the contest.
>Listening to the [PC] speaker does [not] prove very much relative to
the
>radio....another potential gotcha.
>
Yes, but that's a separate problem. If there is trouble, the very first
test is to check what the PC is sending to the radio (or should be, if
we could do it). That's why PC sidetone is a very important tool for
pre-configuration and troubleshooting.
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73 from Ian G3SEK
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