Tim,
I'm a QLF CW operator. Yes, that bad. :^)
What you described below is exactly what I go through during a contest.
Unless I switch back and forth between narrow and wide, I cannot listen
for very long on narrow.
For the wider Topband audience:
Set the BW to 3 kHz, this is how wide the
Hi Tim
You wrote < In VHF/UHF and EME weak-signal CW work, a lot of operators also
liked listening with wider RX filters too, often preferring Gaussian filter
shapes, and letting their ear pull the signal out of the noise.>
I may be just normal because my experience on EME CW is very different.
Speaking to the narrowness of filters for
CW; I recently had an issue with my K3s
which has the dual Rx and a full
compliment of filters with 200Hz the most
narrow in the main & Sub Rx receivers. I
sent it for repair and used my backup K3
which has been upgraded to essentially a
K3s with
I broadly enjoy the digital modes, especially RTTY, and have been using
some FT8 outside of contests.
A signal power that FT8 reports as being at -15dB, is easily heard and
copied by ear by any decent CW operator. I think a really good CW operator
could pull (maybe with a few repeats) callsigns
