[Boatanchors] Intelligibility on SSB

[jeremy-ca]

Ken, I had the same experience many times over the years as I used phasing 
rigs from HF to UHF driving transverters.

Memories of owning a 10A, 10B, 20A, 100V, 200V, HT-37 and Lakeshore 
Phasemaster are still vivid. The DSB with carrier from the 100V used to 
drive a NCL-2000 to around 400W and the reports were always excellent as 
long as I kept the internal clipper cranked back.

For vintage enjoyment these days I use a Viking I that I tailored the audio 
to fit my voice. It certainly didnt involve  $1000 to do it either! But then 
again I ignore the 75M crowd that are a bit obsessed with themselves.

Carl
KM1H
AM 160 to 2M


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Ken" <n5cm at rtconline.com>
To: "Harold Hairston" <k4hca at alltel.net>; <boatanchors at mailman.qth.net>; 
<boatanchors at theporch.com>
Sent: Thursday, March 13, 2008 2:10 PM
Subject: Re: [Boatanchors] Intelligibility on SSB


> 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
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