[Elecraft] Wider bandwidth while listening to AM SW on the KX3?
Martin Ewing
aa6e at ewing.homedns.org
Fri Nov 1 23:07:39 EDT 2013
You get up to 48 kHz bandwidth out of the KX3 I/Q outputs, but you need to supply
your own I/Q demodulator - like Quisk, PowerSDR, etc.
73 Martin AA6E
On 11/01/2013 05:33 PM, Don Wilhelm wrote:
> The KX3 is designed as a Ham Band receiver as the primary consideration. It
> includes filtering that is practical for Ham Band operation.
> Yes, it does provide full general coverage receive, but the design parameters are
> not primarily for SWL wideband audio response. The general coverage aspects are a
> nice add-on, but are not the primary focus of the KX3.
>
> 73,
> Don W3FPR
>
> On 11/1/2013 4:21 PM, Andrew Robertson wrote:
>> It’s true that, in the USA, the sidebands will be 5 KHz, at the absolute maximum,
>> which means that I am missing at most about .8 KHz of audio at the very most.
>> However, in the shortwave bands (above MW BCB) there are many broadcasters using
>> 12 to even 15 KHz of spectrum these days. China, Cuba, Russia, and others have all
>> adopted a very hi-fi sounding very wide bandwidth in the past few years.
>>
>> I use the same speakers for all my listening with different radios so it’s not
>> likely that this is the issue.
>>
>>
>
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