[Elecraft] Microphones (was electronic product standards)

2008-02-14 Thread Brendan Minish
On Wed, 2008-02-13 at 12:12 -0800, Ron D'Eau Claire wrote: There were some microphones produced for the communications market back then such as the famous Astatic D-104 which had a microphone element with a shaped response showing a distinct hump around 3 kHz, rolling off slowly at lower

Re: [Elecraft] Microphones (was electronic product standards)

2008-02-14 Thread Geoffrey Mackenzie-Kennedy
Thanks for posting your interesting comments Brendan. Within the context of SSB useage in ham radio I believe that the 'hype about audio' could lead to another related problem, if not already existing, which is poor use of the HF spectrum available to us. Given the proven fact that a SSB

Re: Re: [Elecraft] Microphones (was electronic product standards)

2008-02-14 Thread d.cutter
I've heard it said that some contest stations deliberately transmit a wider-than-necessary signal to keep competitiors away from their channel. David G3UNA Within the context of SSB useage in ham radio I believe that the 'hype about audio' could lead to another related problem, if

Re: Re: [Elecraft] Microphones (was electronic product standards)

2008-02-14 Thread Thom LaCosta
On Thu, 14 Feb 2008 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I've heard it said that some contest stations deliberately transmit a wider-than-necessary signal to keep competitiors away from their channel. Ahmust be one of those advance the technology things that justify contestsgood for everyone.

Re: Re: [Elecraft] Microphones (was electronic product standards)

2008-02-14 Thread dj7mgq
I've heard it said that some contest stations deliberately transmit a wider-than-necessary signal to keep competitiors away from their channel. I personally would not intentionally transmit a wide signal during a contest. It would, imho, be counterproductive, apart from any other

Re: Re: [Elecraft] Microphones (was electronic product standards)

2008-02-14 Thread Mike S
At 08:28 AM 2/14/2008, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote... This is why you want to have a signal with a very high average power level, but one which is also not wider than necessary. That sounds like CW. :-) ___ Elecraft mailing list Post to:

RE: Re: [Elecraft] Microphones (was electronic product standards)

2008-02-14 Thread Brett Howard
Subject: Re: Re: [Elecraft] Microphones (was electronic product standards) I've heard it said that some contest stations deliberately transmit a wider-than-necessary signal to keep competitiors away from their channel. I personally would not intentionally transmit a wide signal during

Re: [Elecraft] Microphones (was electronic product standards)

2008-02-14 Thread Alan Bloom
I read years ago that speech processors like pre-emphasized audio (louder highs, quieter lows). And the heavier the processing the more pre-emphasis is optimum. Does anyone know if the K3 speech processor does that automatically? Al N1AL On Thu, 2008-02-14 at 01:52, Brendan Minish wrote: On