[Elecraft] K3 and recording SSB & CW

[Jim Brown]

On Sat, 16 Aug 2008 21:03:51 -0400, hank  k8dd wrote:

>Quite possibly I could have cut down the audio format to something 
>like PCM 8 kHz, 8 Bit, Mono 7 kb/sec.  

The bandwidth of ham communications is less than 4 kHz. It's silly to use 
more than 8 kHz bandwidth to record it when documentation is the only 
concern. The 64kB mpeg stream from my internet jazz station is quite 
satisfying for full bandwidth music, so at least modest data compression 
is also in order. I wouldn't do more than modest data compression though 
-- the algorithms use a lot of bits to describe QRN. Think what your cell 
phone sounds like when someone is in the noisy location! :)

73,

Jim K9YC