Dick,
Right on! The VHF contesters are great bunch.
IMHO I think mention of a wide signal should be done, but be tactful, maybe
do it off air, and leave the door open that your own receiver could be at
fault too due to overload or the noise blanker being in use. Back in June,
when I was using an FT897, I thought a LOT of sigs were way too wide. This
past contest I was able to use an Elecraft xvrtr in front of an Orion.
Golly! There were a LOT less folks that I previously had thought were too
wide. Having the panadaptor sweep function available shows some very
interesting things.
After the past 10M contest (that is a vhf band, isn't it?) I had an exchange
with an ARRL director about my observations of his signal. It went well. We
might not want to hear it, but I believe we'd ultimately appreciate hearing
it. Far worse if something of ours was amiss and no one ever mentioned it so
we could check into it.
Chet, N8RA
-----Original Message-----
From: vhfcontesting-bounces@contesting.com
[mailto:vhfcontesting-bounces@contesting.com] On Behalf Of Dick Pechie
Sent: Friday, January 25, 2008 4:03 PM
To: K1IIG; VHFcontesting@contesting.com
Subject: Re: [VHFcontesting] Jan Contest
Hi Steve -
.......
In all a polite bunch of operators. Most run clean signals. There are a few
around here that run WIDE but loud signals and we as gentlemen keep wide
berths. Lord knows we have had our share of problems and probably made a few
crap lists but we always try to fix the problems when told. Now if I just
get rid of my DX elements in the Heil headsets people will quit complaining
about our audio. Great for HF contesting not for VHF.
Anyway good to hear you and looking forward to working you on the upper
bands when we get them running.
Dick - KB1H (KB1DFB operator)
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