Re: SSB transmit audio - Where's the punch?

Posted by John Ragle on Oct 04, 2010; 6:09pm
URL: http://elecraft.85.s1.nabble.com/SSB-transmit-audio-Where-s-the-punch-tp5600109p5600232.html

  On 10/4/2010 1:41 PM, Dick, WN3R wrote:
> I need some advice in how to get the same punch my fellow contester gets on
> his FT-1000MP.  He claims the K-3 audio will never be as good as Yaesu,
> Kenwood, or ICOM.
=====

Dick...

     What level of compression are you using? I use a setting of around
20 or higher, as suggested by some folks at Elecraft. For a
peanut-whistle, the K3 has good audio "punch" at this setting.

     Playing with the equilizers is probably not too useful, but for
most punch, you want a good fraction of your audio in the treble
mid-range, without wasting power on the lows, which don't translate into
intelligibility. On average, a male speaker's voice peaks in spectral
power around 500 Hz, within a broad band between 250 Hz and 1000 Hz.
These are the parts you want to emphasize wrt "punch," e.g.
intelligibility. Obviously the opposite of "high fidelity" reproduction,
which seems to be a current fad, at least on this reflecftor.

John Ragle -- W1ZI
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