[Elecraft] K3 filter widths re: speech intelligibility

Terry Conboy n6ry at arrl.net
Fri Jun 29 20:26:09 EDT 2007


At 12:09 PM 2007-06-29, DOUGLAS ZWIEBEL KR2Q wrote:
>http://www.polycom.com/common/documents/whitepapers/effect_of_bandwidth_on_speech_intelligibility_2.pdf
>
>Don't confuse single single intelligibility of speech (and especially
>speech quality) with speech intelligibility during heavy band qrm.
>It's always a balancing act.
>
>Argh.  This is why I have forgotten "the phone" and concentrate on cw.

This article is interesting, but it isn't completely relevant to 
radio links, where increasing the receiver bandwidth usually 
decreases the signal-to-noise ratio.

73, Terry N6RY



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