[Elecraft] K3 Filter questions

[WILLIS COOKE]

Jim, I think you will find that it is true for the K3 because the roofing filter is selected by the DSP filter setting if you have the correct filters entered.  You could, I suppose fool the software by entering the wrong filters in the setup, but the K3 will switch when the DSP setting crosses the roofing filter bandwidth. This may not be true for brands K,Y,I or T and I don't know about the K2, K1 etc. 
Willis 'Cookie' Cooke 
K5EWJ & Trustee N5BPS, USS Cavalla, USS Stewart


________________________________
 From: Jim Brown <jim at audiosystemsgroup.com>
To: elecraft at mailman.qth.net 
Sent: Tuesday, March 27, 2012 1:33 PM
Subject: Re: [Elecraft] K3 Filter questions
 
On 3/27/2012 11:12 AM, k.igor at comcast.net wrote:
> I am pretty sure the DSP filter is effective only  if it is narrower than the roofing filter.

Not at all true.  When reading K6LL's comments, bear in mind that he is 
a VERY good operator and engineer.  I value anything he has to say.

I posted yesterday that I had done almost the same thing -- told the K3 
that my 1.8 kHz filter was a 2 kHz filter so that it switches in at 2 
kHz -- and that I was pretty pleased with the result.

When there are multiple filters in any signal chain their responses 
combine (the proper engineering term is "cascade") so that the total 
filtering capability is that of both added together. This is most 
pronounced when two filters have approximately the same bandwidth and 
are set to the same frequency.  The way this works is that if filter #1 
is rejecting by 6 dB at a given off-frequency point and filter #2 is 
attenuating by 4 dB, the combined rejection will be 10 dB. This is 
approximately what K6LL and I are doing.

73, Jim K9YC

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