Fw: Fw: [AMPS] SSB interference

[rb]

Tom--excellent solutions and answers to a ways and means I have been seeking
now for awhile of a practical way to get a fairly high degree of assurance
of my outgoing signal quality without having to ask others.  Asking others
is certainly better than not caring at all, but why should we have to?  Your
way is practical, too.  This technique should be of interest to quite a few
hams who would like a reasonably simple way of determining if their SSB rig
is behaving properly.

I have no doubt that a number of the bad signals reported by Peter and
others of activity last weekend were from ops who were uncaring, at best, or
who deliberately cranked it up.  We'll always have that element.  By using
your method, though, the rest now have a way to avoid having a bad signal
out there.
Thanks for sharing this.

73 Ron, K5BDJ



-----Original Message-----
From: Tom Rauch <w8ji@contesting.com>
To: amps@contesting.com <amps@contesting.com>; rb <rbigg@pcola.gulf.net>
Date: Tuesday, March 07, 2000 8:09 AM
Subject: Re: Fw: [AMPS] SSB interference


>
>> Tom--there it is.  I agree.  I think the long and short of it is you have
>> to literally monitor your outgoing signal and tune off on either side to
>> see how clean or dirty it is.  I appreciate hearing the method of using a
>> high attenuation bridging tap to get a small enough signal to avoid rcvr
>> front-end overload.  I have a trusty old wheezer of a BC-348 that I'll
try
>> to rig up to do that.  Its IF is wide as a barn door, anyway, so should
be
>> ideal for hearing nasty things way off to either side without having to
>> tune any.
>
>You'll want a fairly good skirt on the receiver.  I'm not sure a BC
>348 would work.
>
>I use my R4C's.
>
>> When you do this, is there any problem avoiding mic feedback (the mic
>> "hearing" back what is being said over it)?  Any procedure or cautions
>> here? It would seem like an easy way to get feedback howl and/or rf
>> feedback in the audio of the xctr/final combo.
>
>I generally watch the S meter without listening, although I do
>sometimes monitor on the other receiver for a few seconds. I
>always wear headphones anyway, so I can hear my TX audio on
>the monitor in my main rig.
>
>
>73, Tom W8JI
>w8ji@contesting.com


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