Subject: | |
From: | |
Reply To: | |
Date: | Fri, 13 Mar 2009 18:10:00 -0400 |
Content-Type: | multipart/mixed |
Parts/Attachments: |
|
|
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
[log in to unmask]
ECHOLINK NODE NUMBER: 74389
----- 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.
> [log in to unmask]
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
No virus found in this incoming message.
Checked by AVG - www.avg.com
Version: 8.0.237 / Virus Database: 270.11.13/1999 - Release Date: 03/13/09
05:59:00
No virus found in this outgoing message.
Checked by AVG - www.avg.com
Version: 8.0.237 / Virus Database: 270.11.13/1999 - Release Date: 03/13/09 05:59:00
|
|
|