Occasionally between the words "audio" you whistle then repeat ad infinitum. Heard a guy on 3.897 this morning doing just that. Must have been on the air for 5 mins. He never said anything after he finished.
Jim/W5JO ----- Original Message ----- > >> We are not doing tests today, only quizzes to prepare for tests. > > According to what I have monitored on 75m, the way you are > supposed to do > tests over the air is to (1) connect the crappiest sounding > microphone you > can find, (2) put your transmitter in SSB mode, (3) turn your > audio up as > high as it will go, way past the point of distortion, turn on your > leenyar, > making sure the blower noise comes through loudly enough to make > the meter > read at least half-scale, then (4) tranmit, yelling into the > microphone: > "Audio - audio -audio - aaaauuuuuuudio" > > You can be assured that another SSB op will come back to you and > tell you > what a good sounding signal you have. :-) > > > Don k4kyv ______________________________________________________________ Our Main Website: http://www.amfone.net AMRadio mailing list Searchable Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/ List Rules (must read!): http://w5ami.net/amradiofaq.html List Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/amradio Post: [email protected] To unsubscribe, send an email to [email protected] with the word unsubscribe in the message body. This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html

