[AMPS] RE: ALC

[Ian White, G3SEK]

Rich Measures wrote:

>>.  Over 24 hours, the gain varies
>>somewhat and it's asking for trouble to have all the ops keep tweaking the
>>mic gain.
>
>Amen.  A high percentage of contest men seem to be infected with terminal
>''Pump Up the Volume'' disease --  much like CBers.
>
In simpler days with simpler rigs, a neat trick was to disconnect the
front-panel mic gain control and to preset the mic gain internally. 

The other essential part of the plot was to pretend that the mic gain
knob still worked, and to give all the contest ops the usual lecture
about how it had been carefully adjusted, and they ABSOLUTELY MUST NOT
touch it. That kept most people fooled for the whole weekend!

73 from Ian G3SEK          Editor, 'The VHF/UHF DX Book'
                          'In Practice' columnist for RadCom (RSGB)
                           http://www.ifwtech.demon.co.uk/g3sek

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