WG4S mentioned a dilemma I have had many times over the years. Even with readily available receivers, I can't really judge how I sound to myself "locally" all that well. I always want to hear myself over an RF link. I can always hear artifacts of keying or 'phone adjustments better when there's a few miles of tropo path ... no, I don't know why.
The best way I've found is to simply ask a local ham to listen for me on 80/75 or 10 groundwave, depending on the time of day. In the case of WG4S, there are 22 other listed hams just in his town alone! so, doing this should be a snap for him. Call one, and set up a time so that either the transmissions can be recorded or, even better, simply have the other guy (or gal) hold their telephone up to the speaker! Members in our local club do this sort of thing regularly. In fact, lately we've been meeting in the evenings on 28.170 with slow CW for the newbies who want to just improve their code. Nice, quiet groundwave on an otherwise dead band is great for this! __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Check out the new Yahoo! Front Page. www.yahoo.com _______________________________________________ Elecraft mailing list Post to: Elecraft@mailman.qth.net You must be a subscriber to post to the list. Subscriber Info (Addr. Change, sub, unsub etc.): http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help: http://mailman.qth.net/subscribers.htm Elecraft web page: http://www.elecraft.com