[Elecraft] K3 Recommendations for Receiver Audio Equalisation

[Fred Jensen]

Joe alluded to it in his second paragraph, "experimenting."  Go slowly 
and in small increments.*  You need time to try out a new setting in 
varying conditions, and our brains need some time to adapt to the new 
sounds.  I was getting nowhere with it, often changing settings in the 
middle of a QSO and getting frustrated.  Jim, K9YC, finally told me to 
slow down, make a small change, try it out for a few days or a week.  I 
started to see improvement, and ended up with my CW and SSB settings 
after maybe a month or so.  The RX EQ really does do good things, you 
just can't go to the right settings for you in the first 5 minutes.

73,

Fred K6DGW
- Northern California Contest Club
- CU in the 2012 Cal QSO Party 6-7 Oct 2012
- www.cqp.org

On 5/3/2012 11:31 AM, Joe Subich, W4TV wrote:
>
> For SSB I set the lowest two bands to -16 and set the two highest
> bands for -2 (2.4) and -3 (3.6).  This gets rid of LF trash and
> takes the edge off of the hiss.
>
> I'm currently experimenting with the lowest two at -16, the next two
> flat, 1600 at +3, 2400 at -3 and 3600 at -6 to provide some boost to
> intelligibility (the +3 at 1600) and maintaining the hiss reduction.
>
> For CW I set the lowest two bands to -16, then next three bands flat
> and the top three to -6, -10, -12.  Leaving the middle three bands
> flat allows the full "width" of almost 1000 Hz for off frequency
> callers but still gets rid of low frequency trash and high frequency
> hiss