[Elecraft] K3 - A case for wider roofing filters?

2008-12-03 Thread Joe Planisky
... or There's No Such Thing as a Free Lunch. Until recently, I only had the 13 kHz and 2.7 kHz roofing filters installed in my K3. I mostly use CW and usually found the DSP filtering perfectly adequate for my narrow bandwidth needs. But after having a few QSO's disrupted by nearby

Re: [Elecraft] K3 - A case for wider roofing filters?

2008-12-03 Thread Lance Collister
Joe Planisky wrote: ... or There's No Such Thing as a Free Lunch. Until recently, I only had the 13 kHz and 2.7 kHz roofing filters installed in my K3. I mostly use CW and usually found the DSP filtering perfectly adequate for my narrow bandwidth needs. But after having a few QSO's

Re: [Elecraft] K3 - A case for wider roofing filters?

2008-12-03 Thread Barry N1EU
Joe Planisky wrote: This required 6 dB of gain on the 500 Hz filter. However, I noticed that boosting the filter gain by 6 dB also boosted the noise floor by 6 dB. In other words, the S/N ratio at 500 Hz bandwidth was 6 dB worse than at 550 Hz bandwidth. After thinking about it