[Elecraft] K3 SSB - Is the 5 pole filter good enough

Barry N1EU barry.n1eu at gmail.com
Sun Feb 24 16:18:13 EST 2008


My SpectraPlus plots are viewable at
http://www.n1eu.com/images/K3_2700usb_lsb.gif  

LSB is the acqua trace and USB yellow

As you can see, they're very close and both fairly flat in the passband.  RX
EQ was zeroed for the measurements and config menu FL FRQ setting was
adjusted for best match between the modes.

73,
Barry N1EU


John A. McCabe wrote:
> 
>  >On USB the trace was substantially flat with the -3dB points at 430Hz 
> and 2.77KHz. Not too bad >and could probably be improved by moving the 
> carrier offset frequency.
>  >On LSB, however the trace was far from flat having a slope from audio 
> LF to HF of about 6dB. >Not very good at all...
>  >I wonder if others have plotted their 5 pole filters.
> 
> Stewart,
> 
> I just ran a similar test using spectrogram and it confirms what I 
> thought I heard with my ears and was similar to the results you got. It 
> was basically flat on USB but was sloped about the same amount on LSB.
> 
> 

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