agreed, the DSP for cw is great because you are only trying to pull out a 
single frequency tone...DSP for voice is often quite bad because you loose 
too much fadelity and intelligibility with it.
Sure you can hear the signal better with less noise, but you end up not 
being able to hear the words or what the guy is actualy saying because of 
the digital artifacts added onto the signal.
The ssb DSP filters on the TS2000 are really quite poor as Bob says.
Great for cw, but awful for SSB.


73
Colin, V A6BKX
----- 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