Prior to cluster and RBN we would just be listening to band noise and no callers.......... :)
Mike W0MU W0MU-1 CC Cluster w0mu.net On 12/5/2011 4:05 PM, Luis V. Romero wrote: > Ron: > >> Maybe I'm just a dinosaur waiting for the next asteroid, but >> as a Novice I learned it was bad practice ever to transmit on >> top of another station for any reason and, when listening for >> calls, always tune up and down a bit from the calling frequency. >> > Its the cluster/Skimmer feeding frenzy effect! Although Im not all that > rare, in FQP and in SS Im a bit rare (My section is West Central Florida) > and I always know when Im spotted by the pile of callers that call zero > beat. > >> It's good to see that practice still produces results. > I agree. But not everyone does, and I think those that do are the minority. > Such is life. > >> I frequently have the AGC off and protect my ears with the >> hard limiter built into the K3: CONFIG:AF LIM. >> > I use AF LIMIT as well. I find AF LIMIT is quite useful on 160 and 80 > especially here in the south. A setting of 17-19 tunrs lightning crashes > into white noise and you can still hear signals below it. Alas, my cheap > compressor works pretty well for what it is, and it beats having it sit on > the table as a paperweight. > > I hate things that are not being used. :) > > -lu-W4LT- > > > > ______________________________________________________________ > 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 ______________________________________________________________ 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
