Phil,
Thanks for the link to the tutorials for IOS and MAC, I'm just about ready 
to switch from Windows to a Mac.
73's, Albert, WA7FXB
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Phil Scovell" <[log in to unmask]>
To: <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: Wednesday, October 21, 2015 10:23 PM
Subject: Mac Tutorials


> Gerry and others,
>
> www.MacForTheBlind.com
>
> Has several mac and IOS tutorials and one is specifically on email.  John
> does a great job in his digital audio Mac tutorials.  I'd be glad to share
> what I know about it, Gerry, but John's tutorials are first class and he 
> is
> also an authorized Apple tech support type guy and really knows Apple
> products and their usage.
>
> The KX3 is pretty cool.  I did not know that about the Icom 7000 and the 
> ham
> pod, but I did know N4PY has software that works with the 7000.
>
> I certainly understand the frustration with getting started with any new
> phone or product but that tutorials are really great and he is adding to
> them frequently.
>
> Phil.
> K0NX
>
>
>
>
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "Gerry Leary" <[log in to unmask]>
> To: <[log in to unmask]>
> Sent: Wednesday, October 21, 2015 4:32 PM
> Subject: Re: Sideband Audio
>
>
>> Hello Phil, I found the same thing and still find the same thing to him
>> band=
>> s. Now that I have an allograft KX three and a ham pod I can set most of
>> the=
>> things in the radio by myself. I have been contesting with myself to set
>> my=
>> radio so that I don't have to use phonetics for my call sign. Also in 
>> this
>> r=
>> adio I can turn the monitor on and actually listen to what I sound like. 
>> I
>> h=
>> ave found that the cleaner I get my audio the better my queue RP signal
>> is. T=
>> his queue RP stuff has gotten me addicted and I'm having an extreme 
>> amount
>> o=
>> f fun with it. So much fun but I haven't bothered playing with the 100 W
>> bui=
>> ld craft amplifier. Did you know that Rob Santello is working on software
>> so=
>> that the him pod can control the ICOM 7000? I sold my I come 706, and my 
>> I
>> c=
>> ome 7000 earlier this year.
>>
>> Sent from my iPhone this time=20
>>
>>> On Oct 20, 2015, at 8:30 PM, Phil Scovell <[log in to unmask]>
>>> wrote=
>> :
>>>=20
>>> Sideband audio has been a thing of controversy as long as I've had a
>>> phone=
>> =20
>>> license which happened in November 1966.  Now, every rig comes with=20
>>> bandwidth adjustments, ALC setting capability, and audio compression.
>>> Whe=
>> n=20
>>> I was a novice is April of 1966, I heard we had 150,000 American hams.
>>> I=20=
>>
>>> forget the last count I heard but it was hundreds of thousands more
>>> than=20=
>>
>>> that now.  Yet, I am convinced sideband audio is worse today than with
>>> the=
>> =20
>>> old rigs of years ago.  Now, guys have hundreds of dollars invested in
>>> hig=
>> h=20
>>> dollar microphones and equalizers, not to mention their audio
>>> bandwidth=20=
>>
>>> settings, compressions, gain and ALC settings and we still can't get
>>> it=20=
>>
>>> right.  I am amazed at the number of daily signals I run across that
>>> are=20=
>>
>>> nothing short of trash radio and when the CQ WW sideband contest comes 
>>> up
>>> a=
>> t=20
>>> the end of this month, you can't help but hear what I am talking about.
>>> I=
>> =20
>>> started out with a Viking Ranger 1 and 65 watts of A M but my 
>>> borrowed=20
>>> microphone was wired wrong, so I never made an A M contact with that
>>> range=
>> r=20
>>> because my mom bought me a Drake TR4 for Christmas and I was able to get
>>> i=
>> t=20
>>> on the air for the Christmas holidays during those two weeks, or three,
>>> ou=
>> t=20
>>> of school.  By far, the majority of sideband signals have good audio but
>>> I=
>> =20
>>> am amazed, as already stated, how horribly screwed up guys can get
>>> their=20=
>>
>>> audio to sounds with expensive transceivers.  I was tuning 20 phone a
>>> few=20=
>>
>>> days ago and ran across a W5, about S9, with clean audio.  I stopped
>>> to=20=
>>
>>> listen.  He turned it over to a friend he apparently has known for
>>> some=20=
>>
>>> time.  I could not, even after 5 minutes of tuning up and down and
>>> across=20=
>>
>>> his signal, fine tune his audio to where I could actually understand
>>> his=20=
>>
>>> words.  His signal must have been tuned to the most narrow setting of=20
>>> bandwidth, and his compressor was so tight, I simply could only get 
>>> about
>>> 1=
>> =20
>>> out of every five words.  He sounded like he was talking into a empty
>>> beer=
>> =20
>>> can.  I could tell his W5 friend was understanding him better than I was
>>> b=
>> ut=20
>>> not much better.  When I was tuning the 75 meter band one morning at age
>>> 1=
>> 5,=20
>>> I had been up almost all night hamming.  It was nearing sunrise when I
>>> tun=
>> ed=20
>>> across a very strong S9 signal who was 15 KHz either side of zero beat.
>>> I=
>> =20
>>> was taught that gentleman hams told others if their audio was bad and
>>> offe=
>> r=20
>>> to help them make changes to get it sounding better if they asked.  I
>>> don'=
>> t=20
>>> do that any more because of how guys fly off the handle when you tell
>>> them=
>> =20
>>> they need to work on their audio.  If it is a friend, I will, but
>>> otherwis=
>> e,=20
>>> I leave people alone now.  As I was saying, this guy was 30 KHz wide=20
>>> overall.  I broke in and told him of my findings.  Oh, by the way, the
>>> fla=
>> t=20
>>> plate, called the skirt, behind the Drake TR4 VFO knob I had marked
>>> with=20=
>>
>>> half strips, in width, of dymo tape.  Every 5 KHz, I had those pieces
>>> of=20=
>>
>>> plastic tape sticking up a quarter of an inch above the edge of the
>>> skirt.=
>> =20
>>> Those strips of tape that were flat against the skirt were 1 KHz.  I had
>>> a=
>> =20
>>> friend with a Collins KWM2 challenge me by naming frequencies on 15
>>> meters=
>> =20
>>> one day, he lived a mile from my house, to see how close I got to his
>>> reed=
>> =20
>>> out.  We went to 3 frequencies and each time he said, according to his
>>> dia=
>> l,=20
>>> I was 200 Hz off.  Of course, this was during analogue days and long
>>> befor=
>> e=20
>>> digital read outs.  Collins had great analogue dials back then.  I think
>>> a=
>> =20
>>> blind guy told me he did the same type of taping on the skirt behind the
>>> V=
>> FO=20
>>> knob on his Drake Twins, too.  Anyhow, I got off the track.  The guy
>>> that=20=
>>
>>> was so wide on 75 meters was very friendly and said he appreciated me
>>> taki=
>> ng=20
>>> time to give him that report about his audio.  I found out he was
>>> running=20=
>>
>>> the HT37 and since we ran one of those on sideband at the school for
>>> the=20=
>>
>>> blind in Nebraska, I knew exactly how easy it was to widen out your
>>> signal=
>> =20
>>> with one of those rigs.  This guy had no ALC to help control over
>>> driving=20=
>>
>>> his rig so he was as wide as a barn door without realizing it.  Now, if 
>>> I
>>> a=
>> m=20
>>> 5 KHz away from a 20 over S9 signal with my Icom 7000, I cannot hear
>>> any=20=
>>
>>> splatter, even if they were running 3 KHz of band width for modulation.
>>> I=
>> =20
>>> can hear some splatter if he is 5 KHz away and 30 over S9 but rarely
>>> can=20=
>>
>>> anyone reach 30 over on my meter.  A 10 over S9 signal is a loud signal
>>> fo=
>> r=20
>>> me on my radio now.  Anyhow, my point is that with all the software
>>> driven=
>> =20
>>> radios today, and all the compressors, and band width control, and
>>> high=20=
>>
>>> dollar microphones, and equalizers, I can't figure out why guys can't
>>> get=20=
>>
>>> their sideband signal to sound clean.  The real test is during Sweep
>>> State=
>> s=20
>>> phone.  Man, if you live here and point a beam west, you are going to
>>> hear=
>> =20
>>> signals that sound like a mobile sitting in your front yard.
>>>=20
>>> Phil.
>>> K0NX
>>