Cutty, You should not be so modest. 
Your instructions have been of great assistance to me whilst setting up my station.
Yes, I have taken the time to read most of the forums and I do monitor other stations for comparison with what I am seeing on the screen of my own station.
I am still improving, slowly.
Both your Red and your Blue stations seem to be always fairly near what most would consider about the optimum on the graphs!
I.e. You have taken the time and made the effort to find your station's Sweet spot.
The out-lyers on the graph, appear to be the problem and there are not many that could be accused of too little gain or too high a threshold, most of the stations that we are referring to, would err on the side of "high gains, low thresholds" or have a serious source of interference local to their station.
Auto, or semi-auto does not work at present, if your station is not reasonably well set up to start with?
This accounts, overall, to quite a small percentage of stations, but some of these stations send more signals per hour, than the rest of the Network combined.
I am not "trying to teach my Grand-Mother how to suck eggs!" but Egon did ask our for our opinions and suggestions, and it seems only polite, to respond with our views of how things are from a personal perspective. I am sure if I was in the "centre" of the network, I might be trying to defend a different view!
Discussion in the forums is very stimulating, but how many operators actually read the forums and take note of the suggestions made there in.
Some of the less well managed stations appear to be in "Institutions," where perhaps, they are not the responsibility of an individual.
"What is the work for all, becomes the work of no one?"
You only have to look at the stats to see glaring examples of this!
May be this is a different issue, but it appears to be at least part of the same problem, and needs to be addressed?
Brian.
Your instructions have been of great assistance to me whilst setting up my station. Yes, I have taken the time to read most of the forums and I do monitor other stations for comparison with what I am seeing on the screen of my own station.
I am still improving, slowly.
Both your Red and your Blue stations seem to be always fairly near what most would consider about the optimum on the graphs!
I.e. You have taken the time and made the effort to find your station's Sweet spot.
The out-lyers on the graph, appear to be the problem and there are not many that could be accused of too little gain or too high a threshold, most of the stations that we are referring to, would err on the side of "high gains, low thresholds" or have a serious source of interference local to their station.
Auto, or semi-auto does not work at present, if your station is not reasonably well set up to start with?
This accounts, overall, to quite a small percentage of stations, but some of these stations send more signals per hour, than the rest of the Network combined.
I am not "trying to teach my Grand-Mother how to suck eggs!" but Egon did ask our for our opinions and suggestions, and it seems only polite, to respond with our views of how things are from a personal perspective. I am sure if I was in the "centre" of the network, I might be trying to defend a different view!
Discussion in the forums is very stimulating, but how many operators actually read the forums and take note of the suggestions made there in.
Some of the less well managed stations appear to be in "Institutions," where perhaps, they are not the responsibility of an individual.
"What is the work for all, becomes the work of no one?"
You only have to look at the stats to see glaring examples of this!
May be this is a different issue, but it appears to be at least part of the same problem, and needs to be addressed?
Brian.
Stations: