[Elecraft] K3 Equalizer comment

[Fred Jensen]

One of the first things I noticed after getting the P3 and poking around 
the phone bands was how frequently a station's audio was concentrated 
right next to the suppressed carrier.

K9YC helped me set my TX EQ, and the goal was to cut the lows [next to 
the carrier frequency] which consume a lot of the RF power and 
contribute little if anything to intelligibility.  With a 5 or 6 KHz 
span, the display is very striking and signals with a desirable spectrum 
seem to be a bit rare.

I don't frequent SSB very often, but when I do, usually in an NAQP or 
Sweepstakes, I regularly get unsolicited "Great audio" comments with 
Jim's settings.

73,

Fred K6DGW
- Northern California Contest Club
- CU in the Cal QSO Party 1-2 Oct 2016
- www.cqp.org

On 5/21/2016 9:33 PM, Richard Fjeld wrote:
> By looking at how his signal filled out the voice band in the waterfall,
> and also the pattern of it on the display.  It is a crude test using a
> person's voice. Audio reports were the final test. He wasn't able to
> adjust it by monitoring his own voice.
>
> It would be better if the transmitting station had something like an  AF
> generator audibly coupled to the microphone to do a freq run within the
> voice band at a constant audio level.
>
> Dick, n0ce
>
> On 5/21/2016 9:01 PM, Jim Brown wrote:
>> On Sat,5/21/2016 7:54 AM, Richard Fjeld wrote:
>>> I was asked to help a ham get the transmit audio on his new import
>>> equalized.  What an experience!
>>
>> How did you use the P3 to do this?
>>
>> 73, Jim K9YC