Crawley Amateur Radio Club

Although far from exhaustive, here are a few tips and observations, relating to SSB DX-ing, not only pertaining to the HF bands, but also where appropriate, VHF/UHF as well. If there is just one takeaway to be derived from this list, it would be, listen, listen and listen again before jumping in with both feet…! Transceiver Settings Apart from employing a suitable microphone, possibly with an insert whose audio frequency response is tailored for HF/DX communication such as a Heil headset/boom, it is important that mic gain, audio equalisation, (if used), and compression settings are correctly adjusted and checked. Reading the manual obviously helps, (who reads manuals!), but there are also a number of other ways that can be employed to hopefully avoid on-air embarrassment, whilst just as importantly allowing you to present a clear intelligible signal that a DX station will hopefully more easily discern through the noise and myriad of stations ca...