One of the things that Bell Labs found in adding loading coils to phone lines (to reduce the high frequencies) was that in an audio system if you reduce the high frequencies then you needed to also reduce the low frequencies to keep the intelligibility constant. Since a phone system needed intelligibility above fidelity; Bell Labs just decreased the coupling capacitors to reduce the low end while using the line loading coils to reduce the high frequencies.
I tend to use lo-cut to improve "listen ability" when I cut the high end. I use a 1.8 kHz filter for a morning SSB net that has other nets 3 kHz away usually on both sides. Some of the transmitters on the adjacent frequencies can't fit in 5 kHz much less being 3 kHz away. The 1.8 kHz filter is the best solution - the filter skirts along with the DSP skirts help the most I can expect. I would recommend adjusting Hi-Cut for the interference and Lo-Cut for the best compromise on fidelity & intelligibility; if that switches in a tighter filter, then that might be needed. My 2 cents! 73 George AI4VZ -----Original Message----- From: Al For years I have heard folks state that 1.8 kHz is mandatory for SSB contesting... but I have never understood how one could put up with this narrow bandwidth for long. I need more information hitting my ears and am perfectly happy with letting the famous 'ear-brain' filter extract the maximum from that information. ______________________________________________________________ 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 Message delivered to [email protected]
