I operate mainly CW and while the NB is very effective for me on CW, I've never seen much advantage to the NR at narrow CW bandwidths. I had occasion to be on SSB this week attempting to work several SOTA summit activations, and tried the NR. At the wider SSB BW, it made a great difference.
With NR however, even at F1-1 [which I think means least aggressive], while the nasty line noise really fell, the SSB signal acquired a profound echo which made it very hard to understand. I'm running FW4.39 and whatever DSP came with it. Is this reverberation [it's more like that than a distinct echo, like talking through a long pipe] normal? The further "up" the NR scale I went, the more pronounced it got, and beyond F1-4, the signal was indecipherable. Full Disclosure: My hearing sucks and has since one night in 1965 on the other side of the planet, so me telling you what something sounds like can be somewhat of a joke. I can't use my hearing aids under my headphones, so I run the AF gain high ["afterburner roar" or close], but the reverb effect definitely is controlled by the NR. 73, Fred K6DGW - Northern California Contest Club - CU in the 2012 Cal QSO Party 6-7 Oct 2012 - www.cqp.org ______________________________________________________________ Elecraft mailing list Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm Post: mailto:[email protected] This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html
