[Elecraft] low pass filters

[K9MA]

Hang on to that low pass filter!

73,
Scott K9MA

On 2/19/2019 10:55, Phil Kane wrote:
> On 2/18/2019 8:41 PM, K9MA wrote:
>
>> Here, Don is talking about external low pass filters intended to
>> suppress VHF harmonics. If you live in an area where TV signals are
>> weak, they may still be necessary. Of course, hardly anyone receives
>> their TV service that way any more, and most TV stations have moved to
>> the UHF bands, anyway.
> Two assumptions that may not hold even in urban areas.  Many cable /
> satellite subscribers are "cutting the cord" and going to over-the-air
> reception (I use that as a backup strategy when - not if - C*cast goes
> down), and because of the FCC's ill-regarded "repacking" scheme where
> UHF TV channels above 37 are being "re purposed" for the "broadband"
> industries' voracious need for spectrum, some urban TV stations are
> going back to their pre-UHF channels.
>
> With that said - I still use the "good old" external low-pass filter on
> my K2, rather than have it gather dust in the garage. Better be safe
> than sorry.
>
> 73 de K2ASP - Phil Kane
> Elecraft K2/100   s/n 5402
>
>  From a Clearing in the Silicon Forest
> Beaverton (Washington County) Oregon
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