So very true. Three or four years ago a midwest ham called me during
the NAQP SSB contest with an almost unreadable S9+10 signal. I managed
to decipher enough of his callsign to return to him, and I told him he
needed to back off his mic gain. He did and it helped, and by the time
I got him to where he was perfectly readable and not distorting any
worse than anyone else he was down to about S8. I told him he should
leave it there, but I'll bet $100 he didn't.
It's a wonder some manufacturer hasn't put out a rig with knobs that go
up to 11.
73,
Dave AB7E
On 7/23/2013 2:25 PM, Doug Person wrote:
Unless you were listening to FM broadcast, how could you possibly
appreciate a .3% THD? I always assumed anything less than 1% was more
than adequate for our kind of communications. If we get down to this
level of performance, we'll need to work on the 50% or so of stations
that only concern themselves with output power - not audio quality.
There is a lot of dreadfully distorted signals on 20 meter SSB.
Nothing beats working a station that is s9+20 and barely
understandable because he has compression and mic gain pushed up so he
sees 1500 watts on his output meter all the time.
73, Doug -- K0DXV
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