At 09:11 AM 12/14/99 -0800, you wrote:
>
>This was my first serious entry into the world of contesting and it was
>GREAT.
>
>Now the question,
>
>I try to have a clean signal, as tight as possible with minimal splatter.
>If you worked me over the weekend, how did it sound to you?
>
>I noticed other stations that could hve turned their mic gain down a bit or
>backed off their compression.
Henry...thanks for the comments....
I ran SOHP Mixed (500 watts so it wasn't a rock crushing operation) with an
IC-765 I got at Dayton last year. Some signals sounded distorted even with
10 or 20 db of attenuation. Then, they would clear up. Now a lot of
people were pretty ragged on SSB. This also occured to me on CW where the
CW note distorted.
Finally, one guy tells me I have a problem, that by SSB audio is distorted.
The distortion came and went despite what mic setting I used. (Heil HC-4
mic). Bummer. Rigs broke. Sell-sell-sell. One guy spent a half an hour
listening to be call cq and worked with me about the issue. Finally, I
gave up because it was distorting so bad.
Well, I changed some things around in the shack, Took a small tuner and
watt meter off the TOP of the rig and things seemed to get better. After
the contest I went up to the ICOM web page and there is a fix for the
problem I am having.
I really appreciate people working with me rather than cussing me for a
crappy signal. As it turns out, I have a broken rig that needs repairs. I
thank the guys who help me out....
Lee
k0wa@southwind.net
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