[Elecraft] CW RX

[Fred Jensen]

It's personal taste, your headphones/speakers, and state of your 
hearing.  My hearing is pretty bad and my hearing aids don't work under 
headphones [I never use speakers].

CW: Don't boost anything over 0 dB, RX EQ goes away at very narrow DSP 
BW settings ... don't remember exactly where.  You can reduce ranges 
above and below your pitch level to remove noise, although I've never 
been very successful at that.

SSB: On advice from Jim, K9YC, I set the profile to approximate the 
shape of my hearing aids [inverse of my audiogram].  You can get +/- 16 
dB, but if you lower the bands where your hearing is good and raise them 
where it is bad [usually the higher frequencies], you can effectively 
get about a 30 dB total range.  You'll have to run the AF gain higher to 
compensate for the EQ reductions of course.  30 dB isn't even close to 
what my hearing aids do, but it does help a lot.

Most importantly, follow Jim's advice and GO SLOWLY!  I flailed around 
changing the settings to no avail and finally gave up and left them 
flat.  When I went back and tried again following his advice, I changed 
one setting at a time and put operating time in between changes, keeping 
track of what I was doing in my station notebook.  After awhile 
[multiple days], I could tell I was improving the intelligibility of SSB 
for my ears.

Fred K6DGW
--Northern California Contest Club
--CU in the Cal QSO Party
--3-4 Oct 2015

On 8/26/2015 8:39 PM, pastormg2 at verizon.net wrote:
> Good Evening,
> I have been tinkering around with the RX EQ #'s for CW. Would anyone have any good settings to recommend?
> Mark Griffin, KB3Z
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