[Elecraft] Elecraft K3 Presets/Settings for JT65B / EME

[cqbilld at q.com]

  There we are ... IF we wish to run flat and no compression ... DATA A it seems is a natural. I think Lance 7GJ said he ran WITH equalization yesterday, so he would use SSB. Seems like a users preference.

  Here, it is very quick to hit pre-programed PF1 allowing a switch to rear panel audio and IF I have used compression I will roll it back and I'm off and running. (I have been known to keep the compression in on occasion)

  I never use any equalization at all here, so that is not an issue in my operation ... The K3 runs CW or digital 95% of the time EXCEPT for 6m Es. IF I had to mess with equalization resets, it would become a bit like a dog chasing it's tail at some point. Then I would be looking at DATA mode I bet.

  I sensed a bit of aggravation in the responses in that past, that some of us "insist" on using SSB when the Data "modes" were built into the software to simplify our lives. I know when I wrote software and someone avoided one of my programed features, I was "miffed" too.

  After 56yrs of the best hobby in the world, I still like to twist a knob from time to time.

  Long live amateur radio and long live the "old school ops" for putting up with us that enjoy playing in "their ball park" using digital modes.

73  Respectively ... Bill  K0AWU  EN37ed

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----- Original Message -----
From: "iain macdonnell - N6ML" <ar at dseven.org>
To: cqbilld at q.com
Cc: elecraft at mailman.qth.net
Sent: Friday, August 12, 2011 3:52:30 PM
Subject: Re: [Elecraft] Elecraft K3 Presets/Settings for JT65B / EME

"DATA A" *is* USB with no equalisation, etc - that's the point. It
allows you to easily switch between SSB and data modes without having
to adjust audio processing for each.

I just looked at my passband, with spectran, in DATA A and USB modes
with the bandwidth cranked up to 4.0kHz (in both cases) with a 2.7kHz
filter. Indeed, the passband seems to be cut off at about 200Hz on the
low end in DATA A mode, but not in SSB mode. What's that about?

http://www.dseven.org/ar/passband.png

    ~iain / N6ML