[Elecraft] K3 Kenwood mic question

[alsopb]

OK Jim,

Show me your smarter than those monkeys.
Let's assume you don't talk to just one or a few stations over and over
again but instead the random type contacts most of us make.
How are you going to reduce the 12 trillion combos to a few dozen to try
given:
1) You don't know the filter width the station listening to you has. Is it
1.8, 2.1. 2.8, 6 KHz?
2) You don't know the speaker or earphone frequency response of the other
station
3) You don't know the ear frequency response of the listener
4) Most hams probably don't know their microphones frequency response 
5) The propogation and QRM conditions are highly variable
6) How does compression factor in?

There clearly is no one set of settings that will make them all stations
happy or be always be near optimum.
So what is the algorithm to get to the one of 12 trillion possibilities?  We
would all like to know this, it would be a significant benefit to the
community.  

Your references don't really address much of the above.

I maintain there is a high probability of doing more harm than good.    You
hear the bad results every day.

73 de Brian/K3KO


Jim Brown-10 wrote:
> 
> On Wed, 13 Aug 2008 15:45:48 +0000, Brian Alsop wrote:
> 
>>Give me a mike with a shaped response for communications and a flat set 
>>of equalizer settings any day. 
> 
> That assumes an infinite number of monkeys and typewriters. Hopefully 
> we're smarter than that. 
> 
> See Appendix 6 of http://audiosystemsgroup.com/RFI-Ham.pdf   
> 
> and 
> 
> http://audiostemsgroup.com/HamInterfacing.pdf
> 
> to lift your self out of the monkey category. Unless, of course, you're 
> rich and don't care about throwing money at things you don't understand.  
> 
> 73,
> 
> Jim Brown K9YC
> 
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