Well stated Nate. As the Buddha said from his dying bed: “Strive on, untiringly.”
I am tempted to add, there but for a mentor administering with grace, go us all. Ed McCann AG6CX > On Jun 26, 2022, at 5:02 PM, Nate Bargmann <n...@n0nb.us> wrote: > > * On 2022 26 Jun 17:18 -0500, Jim Rhodes wrote: >> They weren't only on digital modes like that. Plenty of "all knobs all the >> way to the right" operators on phone too. Of course that is nothing new on >> Field Day. > > I think there was at least one who didn't have the knob far enough to > the right. On the morning traffic net we had a station come up to pass > a Field Day message. The SSB audio was so poor that even though the > signal strength was adequate, it was pinched to very high audio > frequencies and only had adequate voice power on emphasized syllables > and then it dropped down so far that it was unintelligible. Two of us > experienced ops with home stations could not make out the complete > message after several tries. > > The operator notes on the QRZ page to be almost completely a CW op. I'm > not sure if this was the op's first attempt at SSB or if the TX audio was > never set up over the air with an experienced SSB op. It's also > possible the op has an unfortunate voice disability, I don't know as I'd > never heard the op on the net frequency before. I do hope the issue is > sorted with a trusted friend. > > We have to be willing to inform other ops when there are even minor > issues and accept reports of such issues with our own signals with > grace. > > 73, Nate, N0NB > > -- > "The optimist proclaims that we live in the best of all > possible worlds. The pessimist fears this is true." > Web: https://www.n0nb.us > Projects: https://github.com/N0NB > GPG fingerprint: 82D6 4F6B 0E67 CD41 F689 BBA6 FB2C 5130 D55A 8819 > > ______________________________________________________________ > Elecraft mailing list > Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft > Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm > Post: mailto:Elecraft@mailman.qth.net > > This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net > Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html > Message delivered to edwmcc...@gmail.com ______________________________________________________________ Elecraft mailing list Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm Post: mailto:Elecraft@mailman.qth.net This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html Message delivered to arch...@mail-archive.com
