P3 Transmit Monitor Option

[Roy Morris-6]

Is it possible to optimize TXEQ settings for best sounding audio in SSB mode
using the modulation envelope display?  Roy Morris  W4WFB

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[Grant Youngman]

>
> Is it possible to optimize TXEQ settings for best sounding audio in SSB mode
> using the modulation envelope display?  Roy Morris  W4WFB

No.  Frankly, it’s far better to have someone who can actually HEAR you help with that.  Or to use an RF tap and demodulator into a recorder.

Grant NQ5T

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[Don Wilhelm-4]

Roy,

The short answer is NO.  The modulation envelope display is good for
displaying any clipping, but it will not show you the frequency
response.  If you have seen the modulation envelope of an SSB signal on
an oscilloscope, that is what you can expect, it shows relative
amplitude and any flattopping, but it does not show a spectrum display.

The best way to evaluate your transmit audio is to listen to your
transmit signal on another receiver.  Feed the K3 into a dummy load and
listen on another receiver with a short wire for an antenna - you are
striving for an S-9 to S9+10 level in the monitor receiver.
After it sounds good to you in the monitor receiver, then solicit audio
reports from folks on the air who know what your natural (not on the
air) voice sounds like.  That will produce the best audio TX EQ settings
for you and your microphone.  Change microphones and you may need a
whole set of TX EQ settings.

73,
Don W3FPR

On 5/20/2015 8:47 PM, Roy Morris wrote:
> Is it possible to optimize TXEQ settings for best sounding audio in SSB mode
> using the modulation envelope display?  Roy Morris  W4WFB
>
>

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[Wes (N7WS)]

I think you should strive for the most effective audio, not necessarily audio
that sounds "natural."

BTW, my latest unsolicited "great audio" report was just last night from
E51DLD.  I frequently get these reports. They don't know what I sound like in
real life.

Wes  N7WS

On 5/20/2015 6:48 PM, Don Wilhelm wrote:
> [snip]
After it sounds good to you in the monitor receiver, then solicit audio reports
from folks on the air who know what your natural (not on the air) voice sounds
like.  That will produce the best audio TX EQ settings for you and your
microphone.  Change microphones and you may need a whole set of TX EQ settings.
>
> 73,
> Don W3FPR
>

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[Jim Brown-10]

On Wed,5/20/2015 11:01 PM, Wes (N7WS) wrote:
> I think you should strive for the most effective audio, not
> necessarily audio that sounds "natural."

Exactly.

73, Jim K9YC
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