True, Bill. I have also found out that different vintage Heil ProSet DX4's have different output levels and frequency response. The older ones have hotter output than the newer ones. Also needed to be taken into account are male vs female voices (we have female ops as well). And different mic technique. Lots of variables! Im trying to minimize them as much as possible.
I realize that different voices will give different results, but if you find a good "normal" from a compression and mic standpoint and stick with it across all the rigs, and keep people's fingers out of the settings when they are trying to "help", you dont end up with mush and splatter. And the key in any contest is for them to UNDERSTAND the exchange, so the more articulate and clear we make the transmission, the easier it is for the other guy to copy us correctly and log us. We aint talkin' about broadcast quality hi-fi here, we're talking about being heard and, most importantly, being understood above the cacophony in a phone contest with lots of QRM and mis-tuned amp IMD flying about. Actually, last year we decided to "assign" headsets to particular radios due to the idiosyncracies of the rigs and the mics. That rule lasted most of last year's contest, lets see how long it lasts this year :) You can have a big signal, but if they cant understand it, you may as well run QRP. Just cuz the meters are swingin' WAAAY to the right dont mean they can understand what youre sayin' -lu- ----------------- Message: 31 Date: Tue, 25 Oct 2011 09:47:26 -0400 From: nr4c <[email protected]> Subject: Re: [Elecraft] P3: Can the Panadapter be used with a Ten Tec Orion 1? To: <[email protected]> Message-ID: <[email protected]> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Pardon me, but I have read a lot of the traffic on this topic, and some very good ideas have been considered. Recorded audio into the mic jack or a sound source as in a 'pink' noise, or ''white' noise allows the radio to be adjusted. I have a K3, so I can use it with the P3 to analyze the audio of my other radio(s) while transmitting into a 'dummy' load. But, none of these account for the difference in mics. A station with a dozen radios and a dozen mic is still going to show differences in transmitted audio due to different mics and mic usage/voices. I'm glad I don't have to do this! ..bill nr4c ______________________________________________________________ Elecraft mailing list Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm Post: mailto:[email protected] This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html
