[Elecraft] SSB transmit audio - Where's the punch?

[John Ragle]

  On 10/4/2010 1:41 PM, Dick, WN3R wrote:
> I need some advice in how to get the same punch my fellow contester gets on
> his FT-1000MP.  He claims the K-3 audio will never be as good as Yaesu,
> Kenwood, or ICOM.
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Dick...

     What level of compression are you using? I use a setting of around 
20 or higher, as suggested by some folks at Elecraft. For a 
peanut-whistle, the K3 has good audio "punch" at this setting.

     Playing with the equilizers is probably not too useful, but for 
most punch, you want a good fraction of your audio in the treble 
mid-range, without wasting power on the lows, which don't translate into 
intelligibility. On average, a male speaker's voice peaks in spectral 
power around 500 Hz, within a broad band between 250 Hz and 1000 Hz. 
These are the parts you want to emphasize wrt "punch," e.g. 
intelligibility. Obviously the opposite of "high fidelity" reproduction, 
which seems to be a current fad, at least on this reflecftor.

John Ragle -- W1ZI