Re: [Elecraft] What crystal filters for the K3 are linear phase delay (constant group delay) ?
On 4/23/2014 10:47 PM, Walter Underwood wrote: The usual approach is to choose a filter with steep skirts that is wider than you need, so you can use the middle of the passband where the phase response is not so bad. Then do additional filtering in DSP, where you can have good amplitude and phase performance at the cost of delay. Better filters, more delay. There is no free lunch, it's physics. Well said. 73, Jim K9YC __ Elecraft mailing list Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm Post: mailto:Elecraft@mailman.qth.net This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html Message delivered to arch...@mail-archive.com
Re: [Elecraft] What crystal filters for the K3 are linear phase delay (constant group delay) ?
I ordered from Inrad 6KHz AM filter. I bought on ebay a Astron RS-35M Power Supply I figure even if it has something wrong with it, it will be easy to fix. Thank you for all the help. It's been mind bogglingly interesting. Larry -- View this message in context: http://elecraft.365791.n2.nabble.com/What-crystal-filters-for-the-K3-are-linear-phase-delay-constant-group-delay-tp7587633p7587848.html Sent from the Elecraft mailing list archive at Nabble.com. __ Elecraft mailing list Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm Post: mailto:Elecraft@mailman.qth.net This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html Message delivered to arch...@mail-archive.com
Re: [Elecraft] What crystal filters for the K3 are linear phase delay (constant group delay) ?
It turns out that the Elecraft 2.7 KHz 5 pole filter is the winner according to: http://www.qsl.net/gm3woj/k3filtertestssn2203.pdf which makes me want to make my own filter. Still, I'm going to keep the 400Hz 8 pole filter which is coming with my S/N 27xx Elecraft Radio !!! -- View this message in context: http://elecraft.365791.n2.nabble.com/What-crystal-filters-for-the-K3-are-linear-phase-delay-constant-group-delay-tp7587633p7587774.html Sent from the Elecraft mailing list archive at Nabble.com. __ Elecraft mailing list Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm Post: mailto:Elecraft@mailman.qth.net This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html Message delivered to arch...@mail-archive.com
Re: [Elecraft] What crystal filters for the K3 are linear phase delay (constant group delay) ?
And just for the record. If you are going to optimize for bandpass shape then you are going to have non constant group delay. If you add more crystals you can have both and the filters would be more expensive. It's a compromise and we demand this compromise. A phase linear filter looks bloody awful in terms of bandpass shape. No sharp sides. But these days the DSP can provide some of the attenuation so perhaps a compromise can be made. Which is why I like the 2.7 KHz 5 pole filter. -- View this message in context: http://elecraft.365791.n2.nabble.com/What-crystal-filters-for-the-K3-are-linear-phase-delay-constant-group-delay-tp7587633p758.html Sent from the Elecraft mailing list archive at Nabble.com. __ Elecraft mailing list Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm Post: mailto:Elecraft@mailman.qth.net This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html Message delivered to arch...@mail-archive.com
Re: [Elecraft] What crystal filters for the K3 are linear phase delay (constant group delay) ?
Some of the wider filters in that paper are pretty good. The narrowest filters are not so good. The flat part of the passband has constant group delay. The skirts are awful For narrow filters it starts going weird. Larry Lopez [via Elecraft] wrote: It turns out that the Elecraft 2.7 KHz 5 pole filter is the winner according to: http://www.qsl.net/gm3woj/k3filtertestssn2203.pdf which makes me want to make my own filter. Still, I'm going to keep the 400Hz 8 pole filter which is coming with my S/N 27xx Elecraft Radio !!! If you reply to this email, your message will be added to the discussion below: http://elecraft.365791.n2.nabble.com/What-crystal-filters-for-the-K3-are-linear-phase-delay-constant-group-delay-tp7587633p7587774.html To start a new topic under [K3], email ml-node+s365791n365792...@n2.nabble.com To unsubscribe from Elecraft, click here http://elecraft.365791.n2.nabble.com/template/NamlServlet.jtp?macro=unsubscribe_by_codenode=365791code=bGF3bG9wZXozQGdtYWlsLmNvbXwzNjU3OTF8MjU5MTAzNDE2. NAML http://elecraft.365791.n2.nabble.com/template/NamlServlet.jtp?macro=macro_viewerid=instant_html%21nabble%3Aemail.namlbase=nabble.naml.namespaces.BasicNamespace-nabble.view.web.template.NabbleNamespace-nabble.view.web.template.NodeNamespacebreadcrumbs=notify_subscribers%21nabble%3Aemail.naml-instant_emails%21nabble%3Aemail.naml-send_instant_email%21nabble%3Aemail.naml -- View this message in context: http://elecraft.365791.n2.nabble.com/What-crystal-filters-for-the-K3-are-linear-phase-delay-constant-group-delay-tp7587633p7587779.html Sent from the Elecraft mailing list archive at Nabble.com. __ Elecraft mailing list Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm Post: mailto:Elecraft@mailman.qth.net This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html Message delivered to arch...@mail-archive.com
Re: [Elecraft] What crystal filters for the K3 are linear phase delay (constant group delay) ?
In analog filter design, you get to choose between good phase performance and good amplitude performance. You can't have both. If you want a flat passband and steep skirts, you'll get wonky phase. The Chebyshev filter is a good example of controlling amplitude response. If you want good phase performance, you'll get a gentle rolloff from the center frequency and long, shallow skirts. Bessel filters are a good example of that. None of these are completely linear in phase response, but the Bessel filters are better. The usual approach is to choose a filter with steep skirts that is wider than you need, so you can use the middle of the passband where the phase response is not so bad. Then do additional filtering in DSP, where you can have good amplitude and phase performance at the cost of delay. Better filters, more delay. There is no free lunch, it's physics. My analog filter design textbook was by Van Valkenburg, though it is fairly math-heavy and dang! textbooks are expensive these days. wunder K6WRU BSEE Rice University 1981 On Apr 23, 2014, at 10:13 PM, Larry Lopez lawlop...@gmail.com wrote: Some of the wider filters in that paper are pretty good. The narrowest filters are not so good. The flat part of the passband has constant group delay. The skirts are awful For narrow filters it starts going weird. Larry Lopez [via Elecraft] wrote: It turns out that the Elecraft 2.7 KHz 5 pole filter is the winner according to: http://www.qsl.net/gm3woj/k3filtertestssn2203.pdf which makes me want to make my own filter. Still, I'm going to keep the 400Hz 8 pole filter which is coming with my S/N 27xx Elecraft Radio !!! If you reply to this email, your message will be added to the discussion below: http://elecraft.365791.n2.nabble.com/What-crystal-filters-for-the-K3-are-linear-phase-delay-constant-group-delay-tp7587633p7587774.html To start a new topic under [K3], email ml-node+s365791n365792...@n2.nabble.com To unsubscribe from Elecraft, click here http://elecraft.365791.n2.nabble.com/template/NamlServlet.jtp?macro=unsubscribe_by_codenode=365791code=bGF3bG9wZXozQGdtYWlsLmNvbXwzNjU3OTF8MjU5MTAzNDE2. NAML http://elecraft.365791.n2.nabble.com/template/NamlServlet.jtp?macro=macro_viewerid=instant_html%21nabble%3Aemail.namlbase=nabble.naml.namespaces.BasicNamespace-nabble.view.web.template.NabbleNamespace-nabble.view.web.template.NodeNamespacebreadcrumbs=notify_subscribers%21nabble%3Aemail.naml-instant_emails%21nabble%3Aemail.naml-send_instant_email%21nabble%3Aemail.naml -- View this message in context: http://elecraft.365791.n2.nabble.com/What-crystal-filters-for-the-K3-are-linear-phase-delay-constant-group-delay-tp7587633p7587779.html Sent from the Elecraft mailing list archive at Nabble.com. __ Elecraft mailing list Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm Post: mailto:Elecraft@mailman.qth.net This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html Message delivered to wun...@wunderwood.org -- Walter Underwood wun...@wunderwood.org __ Elecraft mailing list Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm Post: mailto:Elecraft@mailman.qth.net This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html Message delivered to arch...@mail-archive.com
Re: [Elecraft] What crystal filters for the K3 are linear phase delay (constant group delay) ?
On 4/23/2014 10:13 PM, Larry Lopez wrote: Some of the wider filters in that paper are pretty good. The narrowest filters are not so good. The flat part of the passband has constant group delay. The skirts are awful Nothing at all surprising. In general, phase distortion (group delay) goes along with variation in amplitude response, steeper skirts results in more phase distortion in the passband. That means it's greatest with steep filter skirts, AND extends within the passband from the filter skirts. DSP signal processing is a simulation of analog circuits -- when you do filtering in DSP, it's a simulation of an analog filter, and it's far easier to build a filter in DSP with low phase distortion than it is with physical components. In general, when phase shift is an issue, we want to use DSP for the narrow filtering and fairly wide analog filters (the crystal roofing filters) to protect the DSP from overload. And when phase shift is an issue, wider bandwidth is better. The current wisdom from those who get it is to use a 400 Hz roofer for most narrow digital modes (RTTY, JT65) and set DSP for about the same bandwidth. K1JT, the Nobel laureate who gave us the WSJT modes, says to run the RX broad and let his software do the filtering. 73, Jim K9YC __ Elecraft mailing list Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm Post: mailto:Elecraft@mailman.qth.net This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html Message delivered to arch...@mail-archive.com
[Elecraft] What crystal filters for the K3 are linear phase delay (constant group delay) ?
I'm wondering if any digital filters exist for the K3. I'm wondering which common filters work best on the K3. I'm interested in JT65 and JT9 linear phase delay and constant group delay means that the signal of different frequency take the same time to go through the filter so that the waveform is preserved. this is needed to get best results. for narrow filters this is more serious since the group delay changes are at the skirts which are close together. I've haven't been able to find such filter. I've been using the filters on my FT1000D and I do notice the 250 Hz one doesn't seem to help JT65HF as much I would have expected. Any ideas, Larry -- View this message in context: http://elecraft.365791.n2.nabble.com/What-crystal-filters-for-the-K3-are-linear-phase-delay-constant-group-delay-tp7587633.html Sent from the Elecraft mailing list archive at Nabble.com. __ Elecraft mailing list Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm Post: mailto:Elecraft@mailman.qth.net This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html Message delivered to arch...@mail-archive.com
Re: [Elecraft] What crystal filters for the K3 are linear phase delay (constant group delay) ?
On 4/21/2014 1:08 PM, Larry Lopez wrote: I've been using the filters on my FT1000D and I do notice the 250 Hz one doesn't seem to help JT65HF as much I would have expected. Any ideas, Read previous posts about this from W4TV and myself this morning. 73, Jim K9YC __ Elecraft mailing list Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm Post: mailto:Elecraft@mailman.qth.net This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html Message delivered to arch...@mail-archive.com
Re: [Elecraft] What crystal filters for the K3 are linear phase delay (constant group delay) ?
Thank you Jim, I read all your posts. I'll quote your quote of K1JT again here: K1JT says that it is best to run the radio broadband and let the WSJT software provide the needed selectivity in its decoding algorithm. The reason is simple -- phase shift can cause decoding errors, filters in the radio create phase shift. 73, Jim K9YC But what about: very weak signals reducing the bandwidth increases the signal to noise ratio. very strong signals reducing the bandwidth can prevent the DSP chain from desensitizing the receiver and/or saturating the a/d converter. Of course reducing the bandwidth tends to phase shift can cause decoding errors. Which is why I'm asking if there are any constant group delay filters out there. Larry -- View this message in context: http://elecraft.365791.n2.nabble.com/What-crystal-filters-for-the-K3-are-linear-phase-delay-constant-group-delay-tp7587633p7587642.html Sent from the Elecraft mailing list archive at Nabble.com. __ Elecraft mailing list Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm Post: mailto:Elecraft@mailman.qth.net This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html Message delivered to arch...@mail-archive.com
Re: [Elecraft] What crystal filters for the K3 are linear phase delay (constant group delay) ?
Now with EME this isn't much of a problem I would think. If no strong signals are present then the DSP wold be able to shrink the bandwith just fine. Even though a wide filter lets in a lot of noise the DSP can get rid of it. -- View this message in context: http://elecraft.365791.n2.nabble.com/What-crystal-filters-for-the-K3-are-linear-phase-delay-constant-group-delay-tp7587633p7587643.html Sent from the Elecraft mailing list archive at Nabble.com. __ Elecraft mailing list Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm Post: mailto:Elecraft@mailman.qth.net This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html Message delivered to arch...@mail-archive.com
Re: [Elecraft] What crystal filters for the K3 are linear phase delay (constant group delay) ?
This is wrong: Even though a wide filter lets in a lot of noise the DSP can get rid of it. The WSJT software is a DSP. It has it's own filters and the DSP on the K3 is not needed. So the only job of the K3 is to produce a clean wideband signal for the WSJT. You would still have to prevent overload by what ever means. Larry -- View this message in context: http://elecraft.365791.n2.nabble.com/What-crystal-filters-for-the-K3-are-linear-phase-delay-constant-group-delay-tp7587633p7587646.html Sent from the Elecraft mailing list archive at Nabble.com. __ Elecraft mailing list Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm Post: mailto:Elecraft@mailman.qth.net This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html Message delivered to arch...@mail-archive.com
Re: [Elecraft] What crystal filters for the K3 are linear phase delay (constant group delay) ?
On 4/21/2014 1:59 PM, Larry Lopez wrote: But what about: very weak signals reducing the bandwidth increases the signal to noise ratio. very strong signals reducing the bandwidth can prevent the DSP chain from desensitizing the receiver and/or saturating the a/d converter. Joe is well aware of the issue. Hiss answer that the phase distortion issue trumps S/N ratio. You may want to study what he has had to say on the issue. Joe reads the WSJT list. 73, Jim K9YC __ Elecraft mailing list Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm Post: mailto:Elecraft@mailman.qth.net This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html Message delivered to arch...@mail-archive.com
Re: [Elecraft] What crystal filters for the K3 are linear phase delay (constant group delay) ?
I've already recanted on S/N ratio. I was an idiot. I kept skipping the part where the PC is also a DSP. Sven's post on the other thread also brought my attention to it. The only thing left is strong carriers overloading the receiver. I'll go find WSJT and learn some more. Thanks again Jim. Larry N2CS Joe is well aware of the issue. Hiss answer that the phase distortion issue trumps S/N ratio. You may want to study what he has had to say on the issue. Joe reads the WSJT list. 73, Jim K9YC -- View this message in context: http://elecraft.365791.n2.nabble.com/What-crystal-filters-for-the-K3-are-linear-phase-delay-constant-group-delay-tp7587633p7587649.html Sent from the Elecraft mailing list archive at Nabble.com. __ Elecraft mailing list Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm Post: mailto:Elecraft@mailman.qth.net This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html Message delivered to arch...@mail-archive.com
Re: [Elecraft] What crystal filters for the K3 are linear phase delay (constant group delay) ?
Joe is well aware of the issue. Hiss answer that the phase distortion issue trumps S/N ratio. K1JT is correct as it relates to EME where one does not generally have strong interfering signals. Remember the detection bandwidth in WSJT-X is on the order of a few Hertz - not the 2.8 to 5 KHz audio bandwidth that would be the case with human decoding of CW or SSB. Note that K1JT also recommends operating without AGC if possible. However, when we get to HF with its mixture of weak and strong signals, narrow filters are sometimes necessary in order to prevent blocking (AGC and/or ADC overload). 73, ... Joe, W4TV On 4/21/2014 5:28 PM, Jim Brown wrote: On 4/21/2014 1:59 PM, Larry Lopez wrote: But what about: very weak signals reducing the bandwidth increases the signal to noise ratio. very strong signals reducing the bandwidth can prevent the DSP chain from desensitizing the receiver and/or saturating the a/d converter. Joe is well aware of the issue. Hiss answer that the phase distortion issue trumps S/N ratio. You may want to study what he has had to say on the issue. Joe reads the WSJT list. 73, Jim K9YC __ Elecraft mailing list Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm Post: mailto:Elecraft@mailman.qth.net This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html Message delivered to li...@subich.com __ Elecraft mailing list Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm Post: mailto:Elecraft@mailman.qth.net This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html Message delivered to arch...@mail-archive.com
