Jerry,

You likely saw my reply about this to someone else but just in case you 
missed it, I'm running an Icom 7000.

Phil.


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Gerry Leary" <[log in to unmask]>
To: <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: Saturday, February 27, 2010 5:15 AM
Subject: Re: Does DSP really work?


> Which radio do you have?
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "Phil Scovell" <[log in to unmask]>
> To: <[log in to unmask]>
> Sent: Friday, February 26, 2010 8:17 PM
> Subject: Does DSP really work?
>
>
>> This afternoon, I was calling CQ on 17 meter CW at the bottom of the band
>> near 18.068.  Lots of Japanese stations were coming in.  This morning, on
>> the other hand, the band was filled with moderate to strong Europeans and
>> quite a number of them were up and down the band.  I have very little 
>> line
>> noise above 80 meters.  On 80, unfortunately, my noise runs from S9 to 10
>> over S9 but from 40 meters on up through 432 MHz, there is little noise,
>> if
>> at all, and what noise there is, the noise blanker takes care of about
>> half
>> of it.  While calling CQ, as I was saying, on 17 meter CW, a J A called 
>> me
>> but he was right on the threshold of what noise I did have.  The noise
>> blanker helped some but not enough because the signal was weak.  So I
>> quickly snapped on the Digital Signal Processor DSP.  The signal popped
>> right up to a Q5 signal and I worked him without any problems.  In other
>> words, without it, he would not have been Q5 copy.  So, at least on my
>> radio, I have been taking advantage of the DSP often in recent days.
>>
>> Phil.
>> K0NX
>>
>