Radio Mic Gain - Making Your Transmitted Signals Sound Great!
Channel: Stuart Sheldon (AG6AG)
Date: 2022-05-05

Mic gain is one of the most important settings you need to make when operating your radio. If it's too low, no one can hear you, If it's too high, no one can understand you.
Use the tips in this video to get your mic gain level set properly and start making QSOs!

Siglent Oscilloscope used in video:
https://amzn.to/3vKL0Mu

Enjoy!

Contents:
0:00 - Introduction - Radio Mic Gain - Making Your Transmitted Signals Sound Great!
1:35 - Automatic Level Control (ALC). Not a setting but a reading.
2:10 - Prepping your equipment for mic gain adjustments.
3:20 - Initial testing of mic gain levels. YIKES!
3:30 - Adjusting my mic gain and watching my ALC.
4:53 - Remember, there is no ALC adjustment! Only Mic Gain.
5:18 - Hooking your RF output to an Oscilloscope.
9:24 - Visualization of your transmitted signal.
10:12 - Two tone pattern on SSB.
11:25 - What a two tone pattern on SSB should look like.
12:15 - Let's overdrive our mic gain and see what that looks like.
14:35 - Closing thoughts.