[Elecraft] An interested link

[juergen piezo]

A good link for  learning how to generate splatter. ESSB has no place on the HF bands. Just about everyone of these ESSB stations cause a lot of interference on adjacent frequencies. 

This curse called ESSB has spread around the world. Just about every second JA SSB station that I hear has such excessive amount of bass frequencies. Its bad enough having to deal with accents without someone sounding like a monkey in a drain pipe. 

The YB stations  are the worst. Ask anyone about the splatter on the 40 meter band caused by YB stations running ESSB equipment flat out.  They are causing havoc on the CW end of the band with buckshot. This ESSB practice has become the ham version of CB amplified microphone practice, all knobs to the right!

It was such a pleasure tuning across the 20 meter band with the Scandinavian contest running. All the Scandinavian stations  were all using excellent communications quality well processed audio, it was a pure delight to my ears. Even stations that were S1 could be understood. 

I must also congratulate all the Scandinavians for operating their equipment with such professionalism. There was hardly any splatter from most of the big guns. 40  db over S9 signals and all were clean, amazing. 

I was using a club station K3. The Narrow SSB filters combined with DSP filtering are superb in contest conditions. I even had 1 or 2 stations pegging the K3's S-meter. I just adjusted the narrow bandwidth and they  were gone like magic.

The good think about contests these days is that you dont hear any ESSB bassy audio stations around. I am starting to love contesters just for this reason alone! I used to hate contesters, now I appreciate them like a good symphony orchestra, especially when they run well adjusted SSB transmitters. Yup, you can blame ESSB for my born again conversion!

John



--- On Sat, 9/26/09, Hector Padron <ad4c2008 at yahoo.com> wrote:

> From: Hector Padron <ad4c2008 at yahoo.com>
> Subject: [Elecraft] An interested link
> To: elecraft at mailman.qth.net
> Date: Saturday, September 26, 2009, 6:30 PM
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> http://www.essb.us/index.html
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