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    I went to bed right after the last post I made, or I would have stayed on for Round 2. Would have been nice to converse with you again, Charles...and Carlo, I think the best bet for us will be 20M.
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    Quote Originally Posted by N8YX View Post
    Was good talking to you folks. Ron/Steve/Mike, how was my audio? Non-EQ'd PA mic (Telex 752) and it should have a fairly wide, flat output to at least 4KHz.
    Your neutral midwestern "aaahio" accent came through as clear as a bell. I think it fits your mic, I don't believe your voice needs much equalizing :) The noise was hitting me at S-9 and your signal was S +20, hope I said that right. My TT Argonaut V needs an AMP for Thunderstorm nights, hmm how do I break that to my wife?

    PS- I pooped out at 10 PM and went to bed. I never last past 10 anymore
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    Good deal. As far as an amp goes...the old saw about 'forgiveness vs. permission' ring a bell?
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    Quote Originally Posted by N8YX View Post
    Was good talking to you folks. Ron/Steve/Mike, how was my audio? Non-EQ'd PA mic (Telex 752) and it should have a fairly wide, flat output to at least 4KHz.
    Your audio was just fine. Clear, crisp, just what you'd expect from a Ten-Tec.

    I'm curious as to how mine sounded between the two rigs, but we can try that again another day when the band isn't going long on us.
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    Quote Originally Posted by KA9MOT View Post
    You sounded good to me and your signal was fairly strong. I heard Ron very well at times as well but then there were times that you could tell he was there but he wasn't.
    The HF6 is tuned for CW, so I have a small SWR issue on phone. The wire is pointed roughly NNE, so any directivity is away from you guys.

    I really need to break down and get that AL-84 hooked up to one of the rigs.
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    BAN THE DH!

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    I liked you better on the Omni, Ron. But we need to try this when the band is more cooperative.
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    CQ WPX CW is this weekend. Phone bands shouldn't be too bad.

    We have a ballgame tomorrow night. Saturday night, the boss & little miss field day are going to The Gene Kelly Awards (for high school plays) downtown (or as the natives say, dahntahn).

    I'm not into that contest anymore, so I should be available after 2300 Z or so. Assuming I don't get too sunburned working on the garden on the yard during the day, of course.
    “Nobody is going to feel sorry for us. 90% of the people don’t care, the other 10% are glad it happened.” — Clint Hurdle, 2019

    BAN THE DH!

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    Teslacle's Deviant to Fudd's Law: It goes in, it must go out.

    Just remember: Abraham Lincoln didn't die in vain. He died in Washington, DC

    Cutch 300!!!!!

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    BTW - if you ever want to lose that speech board, I'm interested in it.
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    Quote Originally Posted by N8YX View Post
    I went to bed right after the last post I made, or I would have stayed on for Round 2. Would have been nice to converse with you again, Charles...and Carlo, I think the best bet for us will be 20M.
    Yeah, that band has been pretty hot the last few nights. After I gave up on 40m, I worked the Western Pacific and could clearly copy European stations on PSK31.
    All the world’s a stage, but obviously the play is unrehearsed and everybody is ad-libbing his lines. Maybe that’s why it’s hard to tell if we’re living in a tragedy or a farce.

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    Quote Originally Posted by N8YX View Post
    BTW - if you ever want to lose that speech board, I'm interested in it.
    It's not quite a simple drop-in. There's a diode that has to be either clipped or put back, depending on which way the board goes.

    I just hate to take anything out of the rig... fear of mucking something up...
    “Nobody is going to feel sorry for us. 90% of the people don’t care, the other 10% are glad it happened.” — Clint Hurdle, 2019

    BAN THE DH!

    Fudd's First Law of Opposition: If you push something hard enough, it WILL fall down.
    Teslacle's Deviant to Fudd's Law: It goes in, it must go out.

    Just remember: Abraham Lincoln didn't die in vain. He died in Washington, DC

    Cutch 300!!!!!

    “Nero fiddled while Rome burned. Trump golfed.” — Bernie Sanders

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