[Elecraft] Want to Buy a K3

[David Gilbert]

I bought the 1.5 kHz filters instead of the 1.8 kHz filters, and I don't 
find them particularly difficult to tune even in a contest.  The key, of 
course, is to adjust the Shift down to somewhere between 950 Hz and 1050 
Hz.  The only problem I've ever had with them is that some voices have 
such an extreme pitch that it is necessary to adjust the Shift for 
clarity, but that is rarely necessary.

That all being said, I don't think the 1.5 kHz filters provide that much 
of an advantage for SSB compared with the 1.8 kHz filters.  We're 
talking roofing filters, after all, and generally speaking there are 
very times that very strong adjacent SSB signals occupy the space 
between 1.5 kHz and 1.8 kHz AND are clean enough not to spill over into 
both passbands anyway.  I think the great majority of the time the 1.8 
kHz filters with a narrower DSP setting would work excellently, and some 
voices have better intelligibility at 1.8 kHz than they do at 1.5 kHz.

If I were buying them again I'd probably go with the 1.8 kHz filters.

73,
Dave   AB7E





>> I find the 1.5 KHz filter to be too tight (I have a couple).  It
>> requires too much adjustment to be useful, particularly in the
>> "heat of "battle."  The overall difference between 1500 and 1800
>> in the IF doesn't mean much when using a more narrow DSP setting
>> but it is significant in ease of use when tuning.
> I haven't used the 1.5 kHz filter, but I use the 1.8 kHz filter
> virtually all the time for SSB contesting.  I find it rather tweaky to
> tune "just right," and I definitely would NOT want anything narrower for
> SSB.  I tell the K3 that it is a 2 kHz filter.
>
> 73, Jim K9YC
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