[Elecraft] Is there a reason the receive is so Skinny

[Fred Jensen]

I set up my K3 TX EQ as recommended by Jim.  Admittedly, I do not 
operate a lot of SSB, primarily in a small number of contests, but when 
I do I have gotten unsolicited reports of "really great audio."  Since 
this happens in nearly every SSB contest I get into, I've concluded that 
Jim knows a whole lot more about audio than I do. :-)

I run the ALC indicator with the 5th bar about half-on, and the 
compression no higher than 10 dB.  I'm using the Heil headset from 
Elecraft with the electret element.

FWIW:  My hearing was damaged a long time ago and I'm fairly deaf 
[reason for not a lot of SSB].  Jim also suggested a technique with the 
RX EQ which may work for others that effectively doubles the range of 
the EQ.  My hearing aids are at afterburner roar, and the +16 dB of 
available boost in the highs doesn't do much.  His suggestion was to cut 
the lows and turn up the AF gain some.  This gives me about 30 dB of 
range in the EQ, still not enough but a lot better than 16.

73,

Fred K6DGW
- Northern California Contest Club
- CU in the 2014 Cal QSO Party 4-5 Oct 2014
- www.cqp.org

On 4/27/2014 3:18 PM, Jim Brown wrote:

> Using the TXEQ built into the K3, I
> recommend full cut of the three lowest octave bands (50, 100, and 200 Hz
> centers), and 6dB cut of the 400 Hz band.