[TenTec] wide signals

[Carl Hyde]

According to the Part 97 principal of "good amateur
practice" when you are advised that your signal is
over S-9 the prudent, polite and proper technique of a
good operator is to reduce power. Of course "good
operator practice" and prudent polite and proper
technique eludes 90% of all amateur operators on the
HF bands. This is especially true in the vast
brainless, mind numbing, intellectual vacuum of the 75
meter band. 

You know Don I used to really look upon CW as a
barrier to working SSB when I was working my way into
Amateur radio. Now I find that the really interesting
conversations with people I would genuinely like to
meet in person take place on CW and PSK-31. 

I work some daily nets like the Maine Potato Net,
(3950 at 8:00 PM EST every day) because they are my
radio family, but I find I work far less voice than I
used to. 


--- Don <don@corporatemedia.com> wrote:
> 
> Perhaps it's only because I am on the air for a
> limited amount of time
> each year (during four major contests & perhaps the
> 10M & 160M tests),
> but I really never encounter these broad, wide
> signals.
> 
> I often get accused of being "too loud" or "way too
> broad" myself,
> however.  And I know my gear's adjusted correctly. 
> I always chuckle
> when someone says I'm pegging his needle and then
> tells me I'm too wide,
> because THAT GUY's also usually 40-50 db over S9. 
> That's how it works,
> on phone.  Of course, no one ever considers that, or
> the use of
> multi-element stacked Yagi arrays & legal limit amps
> & propagation at
> that moment.  It's "you're too wide on my
> frequency..."
> 
> But I digress...that's why CW's more fun!
> 
> Happy (ready for the flames) holidaze de Don K4ZA (&
> hired gun @ N4ZC)  
> 
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