Agree re commercial messages of dubious merit. I
have a 400 and a 1000. Gee, that averages to 700
so I must be really clever :-)
Phil w7ox
On 3/1/14, 11:20 AM, Wes (N7WS) wrote:
This seems like an increasingly commercial trend
cluttering up this list, with dubious claims to
boot.
I guess that I'm not a "savvy operator" since I
use the discredited 400 Hz filter and manage to
get by.
Apparently, 700 Hz is a magical bandwidth, just
as 43 feet is a magical length for a vertical
antenna.
Who knew?
Wes N7WS
On 3/1/2014 12:27 AM, Gary W. Hvizdak wrote:
Unless you have a panadapter, you'll never work
weak stations, if you can't
hear them because they're outside your
passband! (This is the beauty of 700
Hz!) In fact, many seasoned Elecraft K3 owners
feel that using the radio's
400 Hz default (NORM) CW passband setting, is
kind of like "viewing the
world thru a drinking straw while riding a
bicycle". That is, it would be
fairly easy to skip right past a weak calling
station, without ever
realizing it was there.
But even more importantly, prolonged scanning
with a 400 Hz passband can be
tedious and fatiguing. This is why, band
conditions permitting, savvy
operators prefer a 700 Hz passband:
o "for general CW tuning" -- W3FPR
o "for scanning the band (or a pileup)." -- K8GU
o "for combing through the pileups with VFO
[B]" -- NI0C
o "to cruise the CW bands from a wider
perspective" -- N1LQ
[commercial snipped to spare the reader]
73,
Gary KI4GGX
(webmaster)
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