Hi Phil;

Maybe you can try working my friend Tony, N2ATB.

He is one of the most accomplished CW operators I ever met.

He can head copy 25 WPM and hold a normal conversation with someone in the 
room at the same time.

Talk to you soon.

73 De Anthony W2AJV
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----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Phil Scovell" <[log in to unmask]>
To: <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: Friday, March 13, 2009 5:53 PM
Subject: DSP and Icom 7000


>     Someone asked me awhile back if the Digital Signal Processing
> DSP in the Icom 7000 was in the audio circuit or the IF.  I
> happened to be reading the manual last night and stumbled across
> this information.  The DSP is indeed sampling the signal from the
> IF.
>
>     Speaking of which, last night I was working a guy in Ohio on
> 30 meters.  I check 30 meters often and especially later at night.
> I do so by checking to see if I can hear WWVH and the female audio
> in Hawaii on 10 Megs.  Her signal was really loud last night about
> 9 PM local so I went up the band and heard some CW signals.  I
> punched up a few CQ calls and got a guy from Ohio with whom I rag
> chewed with for about 30 minutes.  Although he was pretty loud,
> and the line noise was low, there was a lot of weird background
> hash and hiss coming through so just for fun, I snapped on the
> DSP.  Fifty percent of the noise disappeared and he came through
> loud and clear.  I didn't have to turn on any crystal filters at
> all to copy him 100 percent.  So, I am very much impressed with
> the DSP, at least for CW operation, with this radio compared to
> the Icom R75 receiver version of the DSP feature.
>
> Phil.
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