[Elecraft] need some roofing filter advice?

[Barry N1EU]

Bill W4ZV wrote:
> 
> 
> Barry N1EU wrote:
>> 
>> I disagree.  I have switched to full-time use of 200hz 5-pole filters in
>> both receivers for cw, configured as 300hz bandwidth in CONFIG menu.  My
>> width is typically set at 300hz.  For contesting (running and S&P) and
>> 160M dx'ing, this works exceptionally well for me and I feel no need for
>> a wider cw roofing filter.
>> 
> Yes and no.  Perhaps in extremely crowded contests but maybe not for more
> casual operating or on sparsely populated bands.  
> 

For more casual operating or on sparsely populated bands, the 1.8Khz filters
do just fine for me.  After all, it's 95% dsp.

I find the advantages of the narrow roofing filter greatly outweigh any
minor advantage of having a wider cw passband in contests.  When running,
they protect me from offending neighbors who would have otherwise ran me off
my run freq, which occurs a few times in EVERY contest - far outweighs the
one or two off frequency callers I might have missed.  And in S&P, the
narrow filters allow me to hear that weak signal right next to that s9+
running station and give me those dx mults in 160M contests.

I removed the 500hz filter pair that I used to also have installed.

Different strokes . . . . 

73, Barry N1EU

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