[CQ-Contest] Poor QualitySignals

[Tom Horton]

Contesters,
  I continue to be appalled at the quality of signals from some of the 
contest stations
we work in most every contest. It's not just the little guys but some of 
the biggest guns!
  I agree that we should start applying peer pressure on these guys. Has 
anyone noticed
after all the comments about not identifying often enough how many guys are 
doing it
much better these days I sure have!
  I don't know why some of the folks...lots of times the big guys... just 
don't care.
  I think peer pressure is the best possible way to cure this excess 
splatter, distortion,
clicks, chirp and recently I even heard one US CW signal that was just so 
bad you could not detect a tone !
  Truthfully,though, sometimes the problem is just ignorance of the 
operator. This can be seen (hopefully)
by hearing some of the big guns out of the bands (too close to the edge and 
spilling over) at times.
  I think this PC( political correctness) stuff and not wanting to hurt 
feelings has gone far enough!
We should police ourselves the way we used to !  It's time to quit making 
excuses and trying to
bend things to suit ourselves and do it the right way. The honest and 
ethical way! Why have we gone so
far off course?
I quite often tell someone their audio is bad, and typically the reply is 
"CQ-CONTEST".
I was told once that I had a problem and fixed a situation I didn't know I 
had. (tks K4XU).
As far as the CW, I have an old MP, and no one has ever told me it has Clicks.
If it does, I want to know. I want to know anytime my signal is not right.
  I don't know why some of the folks...lots of times the big guys... just 
don't care.
I think peer pressure is the best possible way to cure this excess 
splatter, distortion,
clicks, chirp and such. Recently I even heard one US CW signal that was 
just so bad
you could not detect a tone !
  I think this PC( political correctness) stuff and not wanting to hurt 
feelings has gone far enough!
We should police ourselves the way we used to!
  Regarding the signal report to give on CW for clicks...599K is the 
correct one and 599C for chirps.
It won't fit your logging program nor his (or mine). But he should soon 
figure that out. What you (we)
can do in our logs is a simple ALT N or whatever in the log and make a 
quick note of it.
  This needs to apply to all contesters, not just the US stations, but that 
should probably be our
main focus. These things need desparately to be conveyed to many South 
American and
European stations as well. Have you noticed that this rarely applies to the 
Japanese stations?
  I plan to start collecting data this weekend!
One thing to be careful of however. Before you ding someone...MAKE SURE 
YOUR NOISE BLANKER
IS OFF!!!!!!
If my signal is bad TELL ME!!!!!

Flame away... I'm a big boy..I can take it!
73,
Tom K5IID




At 22:01 10-12-02 -0800, you wrote:
>I dunno, Ron, 5N8K is a pretty rare multiplier. Your plan
>may backfire :)
>
>Mike, W4EF.............................
>
>----- Original Message -----
>From: "Ron Wetjen" <wd4ahz at gte.net>
>To: "Bill Fisher, W4AN" <w4an at contesting.com>
>Cc: <cq-contest at contesting.com>
>Sent: Tuesday, December 10, 2002 9:10 AM
>Subject: Re: [CQ-Contest] Re: Yaesu FT1000mp Mark V Key Clicks
>
>
> > Bill Fisher, W4AN wrote:
> >
> > > You know what... this is an excellent idea.  I will write an application
> > > to do it.  I'll post a link on www.contesting.com.  I'll make it so your
> > > post can be anonymous or not with date, time, band, and comments fields.
> > > The most complained about stations (top-10 USA and top-10 Europe) can be
> > > featured on CQ-Contest once per month for their efforts.  :)
> >
> > Sounds like a plan!  We can start with the 10 Meter Contest this weekend!
> >
> > Another solution, would be to send "real" signal reports ... appending a
> > "K" to the report - i.e., 5NNK ... although, can you be a "tone 9" with
> > Key Clicks?  It's possible some folks don't know ... because no one has
> > ever told them!
> >
> > I think I might program an "F key" - 5N8K ... just in case!
> >
> > Ron
> >
> >
> >
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