When I was in college, I had a few friends who were involved in the
local AM and FM broadcasting scene.
I didn't need anyone to tell me that I didn't have a good "radio voice,"
so I got involved in the engineering side of the house.
So, getting the optimal mic, and making the optimal equalization
settings, would be of limited value in my case.
It's sort of like my photography efforts - expensive camera and lenses
with a poor photographer behind the camera.
If I shoot a good photo, it's purely by accident.
Besides, I've loved CW since day one (note callsign).
73 de Jim - AD6CW
On 7/9/2014 11:19 AM, Ray Sills wrote:
I have to agree with Phil on this. I am by no means a crackerjack CW
operator. But, I find with my KX3, that most of the time I operate CW.
It just gives me more "bang for the buck" when running 5 watts with my
KX3. I have the MH3 mic, and have used it now and then. In the past
(QRO days) I did more voice operating.
But, for me, the goal here is to have intelligible audio, and there is
little value in transmitting any frequencies lower than 200 Hz.
You're better off generating RF that excludes those "low"
frequencies. Still, it is handy to have an on-board equalizer, so
that you can make some tweaks to the audio response -for your
individual voice-.
I used to work in broadcasting, both radio and television, so I
understand that it's desirable for broadcast media to have a "full
bandwidth" audio sound. But, the fact is, that even with
broadcasting, we would make individual adjustments -for each person-
who was using a mic, so as to "make them sound good".. which was and
still is a personal decision made by the audio operator. The good
audio operators, know how to adjust their audio mixing consoles to
optimize the sound, and how it "sits" in the mix. It's more an art,
than a science. And, one of the concerns when adjusting things was
"how would this audio sound on a TV or radio with a small speaker".
Those types of operators are referred to as having "golden ears",
since they made the audio sound good on tiny speakers, as well as high
quality audiophile speakers.
So, I also prefer broadcast audio for broadcasting, and communications
audio for communicating.
73 de Ray
K2ULR
KX3 #211
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