Hi.

hat's not a rant.  It was well said.

73, de Lou K2LKK



At 05:52 PM 6/19/2006 +0000, you wrote:
>Hi folks,
>
>THe question of whether or not the speech synthesizer in the
>op's rig could read out signal reports such as five nine
>etc. got me thinking about this, and it's one of my pet
>peeves.
>
>THere is a reason that the rst system, that's r s and t as
>in romeo sierra tango for those of you who's speech synths
>don't do kind things to it) is shorthand for readability,
>strength and tone.
>SO to answer the op's question, nope your speech synth in
>your radio can't do that.  ONly you can judge readability,
>and tone for a cw signal.  nOW comes the rant part.
>
>I work a lot of guys on the paper chasing frequencies who
>never give anybody a readability lesss than five unless the
>signal is almost too weak tohear.  I"ll hear a station with
>rf feedback up the wazoo and some guy gives him a five nine.
>WHat's with that?  HE sounds like something the dog left in
>the yard and this dude gives him a 59 report.
>
>HOnest signal reporting is a proud part of the ham radio
>tradition.  WE should educate ourselves about what poor
>signals indicate about the state of the transmitter in
>question.  GIving honest reports that clue the operator on
>the other end in about problems is part of what being a good
>operator is about.
>
>73 de nf5b
>
>
>
>
>Richard Webb,
>Electric Spider Productions,
>Eads Tn.
>
>
>Braille:  support true literacy for the blind.

Louis Kim Kline
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