The subject of extra-narrow SSB bandwidths comes up fairly regularly. These 1.8 kHz (and even 1.5 kHz in use out there) bandwidths are not effective for everybody. The older I get, the less I can tolerate these narrow bandwidths for SSB, even in a contest. They give me listener's fatigue. I am amazed at those who are happy as clams listening in an 1800 Hz bandwidth. As has been said many times before, nothing beats the ear-brain combination's filtering ability. I find that hams who started copying signals at a young age can almost always do this better than others. The next time you work me in a contest I will be listening to you in a bandwidth of 2.5 kHz or greater, with QRM and splatter flying everywhere and my brain easily picking out signals in the midst of all of that.
Stan, you're doing the right thing... spend extended time listening to these bandwidths before committing. Al W6LX ________________________________ I'm going to have to go home and listen closer to see if I like 2.1 or 1.8. 73 Stan AE7UT ______________________________________________________________ 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
