> ESSB has it’s place, just like every other mode.
Not every mode has a place on every band.
ESSB has no place on any band where wideband FM is not permitted due
to the bandwidth. Amateur radio is a communications service, not a
broadcast service and 2.7 KHz is all that is necessary for clean SSB
with reasonable fidelity ... audio that does no sound tinny, muddy or
hollow. The only thing necessary is some appropriate audio shaping,
equalization and processing.
> I’d far rather have a long afternoon QSO with folks that don’t sound
> like parakeets.
The ESSB boys that insist on ruler flat audio response from 25 Hz
to 5 KHz (or more) with both bass and treble boost to accomplish
that flat RF mask are often more difficult to tune and listen to
than a well equalized and properly processed standard 2.6 to 2.8 KHz
SSB signal due to the non-flat characteristics of the ionosphere.
73,
... Joe, W4TV
On 2014-11-17 4:33 PM, GRANT YOUNGMAN wrote:
but I still don't like appreciate it: Big hog of bandwidth, IMO. And it's so
easily recognizable on my P3 or PX3.
Of course, ESSB is not appropriate to contest environments or crowded bands in
general. (Although contesting in the aggregate is a far worse band hog than 1
or 2 ESSB QSOs).
On the other hand, depending on times and frequencies, large segments of the
amateur bands are vast unoccupied wastelands. So to argue (as many do) that
ESSB wastes bandwidth .. well, bandwidth isn’t quite like the non-renewable
resources we’re quite happy to waste ;)
I’d far rather have a long afternoon QSO with folks that don’t sound like
parakeets. ESSB has it’s place, just like every other mode. The ESSB on the
K3 would be better called “better sounding SSB”, compared to what the hard core
ESSB groups like to run. It’s more akin to the sound of vintage phasing rigs
(which sound very good generally). And it IS better sounding SSB — provided
the guy on the other end isn’t stuck with a 2.1 KHz mech filter or some other
restrictive bandwidth. Certainly it’s less effective in working stations close
to the noise level, but that isn’t what ESSB is about anyway.
Grant NQ5T
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