[Boatanchors] Intelligibility on SSB

[Ken]

Hi Harold & Gang,

As I see it, a rather big problem exists because of the trend in design
cutting off the lows, at 300 cycles & down, the later Collins rigs went
down from a 3.1 bandpass to a 2.1 I believe cutting off at 400 cycles.
I have a deep voice. If you cut off everything below 400 cycles, you
are not hearing my natural voice, you're hearing the harmonic content.
When the Collins KWM2 came out a good friend of mine, W5DLA
in Gulfport Miss, bought one with the recommended microphone.
Well, I had been talking to many hams on 75 meters for years almost
all using phasing rigs. I visited W5DLA while passing thru his town
and he was talking to the usual crowd that hung out on 3925 Kcs.
When I spoke to them, none, and I mean NONE, knew who I was!
When I told them they were skeptical. My home rig was a Central
Electronics 10B driving a homebrew modified 1625 gg driving 4
modified 1625's gg using a D-104 microphone.

Another ham on the Missippi Gulf Coast used to remark out of a
clear blue sky while in a roundtable, "Ken you sound like BBC!"
No mistaking who I was! No, I have never worked in the Commercial
Broadcast Service!
FWIW,

Ken   N5CM


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Harold Hairston" <k4hca at alltel.net>
To: "Ken" <n5cm at rtconline.com>; <boatanchors at mailman.qth.net>;
<boatanchors at theporch.com>
Sent: Thursday, March 13, 2008 6:12 AM
Subject: Re: [Boatanchors] TURBO RANGER FS

 I'm thinking, the better it is, the worse I am
> going to sound!
> Now, am I going in the right direction?
>
> Harold
______________________________________________


-- 
I am using the free version of SPAMfighter for private users.
It has removed 1029 spam emails to date.
Paying users do not have this message in their emails.
Get the free SPAMfighter here: http://www.spamfighter.com/len