[AMRadio] AM Broadcast Quality

[Jay Bromley]

Seems older rigs like the Johnson series seem to get tighter on response as
their components age.  I know of a few Rangers I've swept had a hard time
going up to 2KHz much less than 3KHz.  Most guys always gave me a good
report and said the bass sounded great, when in reality I had no high end at
all.

73 de jay/w5jay..

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[mailto:amradio-bounces at mailman.qth.net] On Behalf Of Bry Carling
Sent: Tuesday, December 17, 2013 3:06 PM
To: W. Harris
Cc: amradio at mailman.qth.net
Subject: Re: [AMRadio] AM Broadcast Quality

Thank you for the specs. If it won't offend anyone, I would just like to add
that some of this will depend on the characteristics of the microphone too.
You could actually get lower bandwidths but no higher.

Bry Carling
http://af4k.com
Sent with my iPhone 6


> On Dec 17, 2013, at 2:09 PM, "W. Harris" <nbcblue at hotmail.com> wrote:
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> The specs on my Ranger audio chain and other Johnson transmitters is flat
response from 250-3000 cycles. For the Collins 32V-3 it is 200-3000 cycles,
which is all very adaquite  for good AM good voice  communications. I get
very good audio reports on the Ranger. Any more response just ads to the
bandwidth. For AM broadcast stations, 40-7,500 cycles is typical. We are not
broadcast stations.
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> 97.307 Emission standards
> (a) No amateur station transmission shall occupy more bandwidth than
necessary for the information rate and emission type being transmitted, in
accordance with good amateur practice.
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> 10 or 20 kHz bandwidth is not necessary for good AM communications on the
ham bands. We are communicating, not broadcasting. 
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> Bill - K5MIL
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>> Date: Tue, 17 Dec 2013 05:16:20 -0600
>> From: Rob Atkinson <ranchorobbo at gmail.com>
>> To: "W. Harris" <nbcblue at hotmail.com>
>> Cc: "amradio at mailman.qth.net" <amradio at mailman.qth.net>
>> Subject: Re: [AMRadio] AM Broadcast Quality
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>> Let's rewind this whole thing had have a rational discussion with 
>> some meaningful technical content instead of all this subjective 
>> stuff about "broadcast quality" whatever that means.
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>> Bill, since you started it, why don't you start over again and begin 
>> with a statement about what you think, i.e. your technical definition 
>> of broadcast quality (in other words, audio frequency response by 
>> frequency and no. of dB down from the peak level) and what you think 
>> it should be, again giving us some numbers.  Maybe you think ham AM 
>> audio should be 20 dB down at 100 cyles, nothing lower, with a 
>> gradual rise of 15 dB to 3 kc and a gradual attenuation to nothing 
>> above 4.5 kc.  That's an example.  You may have a different technical 
>> specification, but such a description would actually give us 
>> something to discuss in a rational way.
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>> The other vague and subjective statement is the "communicate using no
>> more bandwidth than necessary" thing.   Why don't you tell us what
>> that means to you in specific terms once again?  Otherwise such a 
>> comment is needlessly provocative and contentious.
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>> 73
>> 
>> Rob
>> K5UJ
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