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
>