[CQ-Contest] Interesting Youth In Ham Radio

[Ward Silver]

Tell them to turn off the preamp and noise blanker, be sure AGC is set 
to SLOW, then turn the RF Gain down until the S meter shows about S5 or 
even higher.  The band will sound tremendously cleaner and it will be a 
lot easier to listen to without everything set to maximum.  Once you can 
hear without distortion and the AGC compressing everything until it 
sounds like a used-car ad, phone contests are a whole lot easier to deal 
with.

73, Ward N0AX


On 11/16/2017 3:02 PM, cq-contest-request at contesting.com wrote:
> They tune in the bands and it's all mayhem everywhere!
>
> And to a non contester when they tune into the bands on a major contest
> weekend like what is coming up.? Well they say what a mess...