Those 8-pole filters have steeper skirts. Either the 5- or 8-pole work quite well.
I use 5-pole for the narrower filters (250, 500), and the 8-pole for 1.8, 2.8, 13 KHz bandwidths. 73, matt W6NIA K3 #24 On Wed, 08 Aug 2012 19:12:58 -0600, you wrote: >Why an 8 pole filter > >OR > >Why a 5 pole filter? > >Yeah I know the 5 poles are cheaper... but other than that. > >Phil >Santa Fe >______________________________________________________________ >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 ______________________________________________________________ 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

