I participated in a couple of contests lately with my K2/100, and I was
amazed how I could drill down and isolate CW signals with the combinations of xfil/afil's (KDSP2). It was VERY rare that a combination of FLx/CFx didn't make the problem go away completely. In those cases it diminished it enough that I could ignore it. In the SS SSB contest, working through the FLx filters did not seem to have much impact against strong adjacent signals. Does this mean I need to go back through and re-visit the filter alignment for the SSB stages? I imagine that in some cases, with the size of noisy amps the SSB'ers use, nothing with help. Current settings are; FL1-OP1 FL2-2.00 FL3-1.80 Will going through the filter alignment for SSB help with this? Is there a setting in there (can't recall) that steepens the skirt? Will tweaking the afil/SFx filter settings help any? -- David Wilburn [hidden email] K4DGW K2 S/N 5982 _______________________________________________ Elecraft mailing list Post to: [hidden email] You must be a subscriber to post to the list. Subscriber Info (Addr. Change, sub, unsub etc.): http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help: http://mailman.qth.net/subscribers.htm Elecraft web page: http://www.elecraft.com |
David,
It may help for you to re-visit the FL2 and FL3 filters with Spectrogram. Instead of believing the filter widths that are indicated on the display, you may want to actually measure the width in the Spectrogram display. When the K2 variable filter is set substantially away from its design point, the filter width does not track very well - the design point of the K2 variable filter is in the 400 to 600 Hz range, and a width of 2kHz is very far away indeed. Usually the actual width is wider than that indicated. If you need additional information about setting the SSB filters, take a look at my website www.qsl.net/w3fpr - look at part 3 of the article on K2 dial calibration. 73, Don W3FPR David Wilburn wrote: > I participated in a couple of contests lately with my K2/100, and I was > amazed how I could drill down and isolate CW signals with the > combinations of xfil/afil's (KDSP2). It was VERY rare that a > combination of FLx/CFx didn't make the problem go away completely. In > those cases it diminished it enough that I could ignore it. > > In the SS SSB contest, working through the FLx filters did not seem to > have much impact against strong adjacent signals. Does this mean I need > to go back through and re-visit the filter alignment for the SSB stages? > I imagine that in some cases, with the size of noisy amps the SSB'ers > use, nothing with help. Current settings are; > FL1-OP1 > FL2-2.00 > FL3-1.80 > > Will going through the filter alignment for SSB help with this? Is > there a setting in there (can't recall) that steepens the skirt? Will > tweaking the afil/SFx filter settings help any? > Elecraft mailing list Post to: [hidden email] You must be a subscriber to post to the list. Subscriber Info (Addr. Change, sub, unsub etc.): http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help: http://mailman.qth.net/subscribers.htm Elecraft web page: http://www.elecraft.com |
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