(Snip) Actually the worst audio I have heard is from your new VK 10 WATT hams. They either seem to be running ESSB or CB type audio with all knobs to the right! I know its tough working DX with 10 watts however that does not excuse poor operating practice.
I find it amazing that your authorities who deem these stations to be learners. Yet at the same time the law allows them to transmit ESSB by doing mods to their radios? This should be illegal for beginners. I wonder why your authorities think that its ok for a station that knows nothing about transmitters, and then allows them to removed SSB filters and transmit SSB in 6khz? This is stupid to say the least. Here in Europe most countries have 2.7khz SSB bandwidth limit. If I was running 10 watts the last thing I would be doing is using ESSB to work DX. I could probably work most of these 10 watt stations on 7mhz SSB if they did not run ESSB. But it seems to be a thing that the new hams seems to love in VK? I wish some of these 10 watt stations would share some of their antenna engineering skills with the ham community. I have never heard so many loud 10 watt stations. Even in the hey day of 10 watt licenses in Japan during the peak of the solar cycle they were never so loud! When a station can work you long path on 7mhz with 10 watts and a dipole at 10 meters with a S9 signal you take notice Hi John (End Snip) Could not agree more. NO...it IS ILLEGAL for these operators to run more than 10 watts, and also illegal to modify a radio. If only we could get foreign based information on the operators using ESSB and suspect power levels to pass on to ACMA (our regulator) it would be helpful?...(:-)) My comment on ssb audio was based on quite a large number of contesters during the Oceania DX contest this past weekend and the vast majority of these signals came out of Eastern Europe. Please do make the leap to think I am being critical of any country OR the huge number of quality sigs heard from ALL over the world. I am referring to about 30 odd stations that had audio that was difficult to understand fully on ssb ok? I am not trying, or intending. To offend anyone, there are many great sounding stations from all over the world and I get great pleasure in talking to them. We have had ACMA pull a few F-call (4 letter suffixes only) licences this year for running excessive power levels. We have some "issues" in VK and I would never deny this. As an aside...I hope my K3 sounds superb...(GRIN and tongue is firmly pressed into my cheek) Gary Sent via BlackBerry® from Telstra ______________________________________________________________ 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
