[CQ-Contest] CQ WW CW 2014 Results

[David Gilbert]

Totally this.  A few years ago I was operating in the winter NAQP SSB 
contest when I tuned across a running K9 station while I was looking for 
a run frequency.  The guy was about S9+10 and totally unreadable to the 
point that he wasn't getting any replies at all. I called him and 
explained that he needed to back down on something if he wanted to 
actually make any contacts.  I had him back down his drive in steps 
until he was solid copy  .... not audiophile, just comparable to other 
signals on the band.  He ended up a full 15db down from where he 
originally was, and it wasn't due to QSB.  Hard to believe, and I'm 
pretty sure he didn't, but I swear it's true.

73,
Dave   AB7E



On 5/5/2015 7:22 PM, Jim Brown wrote:
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> The really dumb part of badly distorted, overdriven audio is that it 
> makes the guys that do it really hard to copy.
>
> 73, Jim K9YC