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Re: [CQ-Contest] Interesting Youth In Ham Radio

To: cq-contest@contesting.com
Subject: Re: [CQ-Contest] Interesting Youth In Ham Radio
From: Ward Silver <hwardsil@gmail.com>
Date: Thu, 16 Nov 2017 15:11:16 -0600
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Tell them to turn off the preamp and noise blanker, be sure AGC is set to SLOW, then turn the RF Gain down until the S meter shows about S5 or even higher.  The band will sound tremendously cleaner and it will be a lot easier to listen to without everything set to maximum.  Once you can hear without distortion and the AGC compressing everything until it sounds like a used-car ad, phone contests are a whole lot easier to deal with.

73, Ward N0AX


On 11/16/2017 3:02 PM, cq-contest-request@contesting.com wrote:
They tune in the bands and it's all mayhem everywhere!

And to a non contester when they tune into the bands on a major contest
weekend like what is coming up.? Well they say what a mess...

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