[CQ-Contest] Contest SSB Frequencies

[Zack Widup]

There are some hams who use DRM (Digital Radio Mondiale). Not only is the
tuning not very critical, but it sounds like the person is right there in
your room with you.

73, Zack W9SZ

On Thu, Aug 17, 2023 at 7:38 AM jpescatore--- via CQ-Contest <
cq-contest at contesting.com> wrote:

> Definitely a silly thing for contest QSOs, but:
> Years ago I had a ragchew SSB contact where the guy wanted to know what my
> dial freq was because he always liked to hear what someone really sounded
> like. I explained to him that with the limited bandwidth we use on SSB in
> our microphones and radios, no one sounds like they do in real life anyway.
> If he wanted something closer to what ops sounded like IRL, he could go to
> 3885 and join the HiFi AMers.
> The first time you talk to one of your kids on the telephone, they don't
> even recognize you - the identifying features of you don't get through that
> limited bandwidth. The phonemes for intelligibility do, but not the facets
> for speaker identification.
> Though, there are some speech patterns that are so unique, they stand out:
> Fred K3ZO calling CQ in a contest was identifiable even if you listed
> through a CW filter...
> 73 John K3TN
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