Then how do you keep strong signals in the passband of the (now wider) rig
filter away from the AGC in the rig? Attenuating a strong signal now in the
passband also attenuates the weak adjacent ones I'm trying to work, no?
Ignorance is a powerful sedative, so perhaps I don't know what I'm missing, but
the 250hz RTTY filter in my Icom radios turned me from a 150 QSO/contest
frustrated S&Per into a 1200 QSO/contest participant that enjoys the time spent
in the chair!
Al
AB2ZY
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From: Jeff Blaine [keepwalking188@yahoo.com]
Sent: Thursday, January 10, 2013 9:34 AM
To: Al Kozakiewicz; RTTY Mailing List
Subject: Re: [RTTY] RTTY spectrum analysis article
The best place for RTTY rx filtering is in the demod, not the rig. narrow
crystal filter and it's group delay gives more problems than it solves.
The solution is to run a filter wide enough to let you quickly tune (400-500
hz?), but not so razor sharp that the rig rather than the demod is doing the
selectivity filtering.
73/jeff/ac0c
www.ac0c.com
alpha-charlie-zero-charlie
-----Original Message-----
From: Al Kozakiewicz
Sent: Thursday, January 10, 2013 8:30 AM
To: RTTY Mailing List
Subject: Re: [RTTY] RTTY spectrum analysis article
>No, this doesn't necessarily mean you should give
>up "true" FSK keying. There are things you can do about it, and some
>people are people taking responsibility and doing these things--please read
>the
>article!
That was depressing. Transmit filters are only enabled on the Icom radios I
have on SSB, so there is no apparent option for improvement that I can see
for without switching to AFSK which, in turn, makes the radios just about
useless for contesting as there is no practical way to use the RTTY Rx
filters without also transmitting FSK.
Unless I missed it in the article, I see no way to improve things short of
buying a new radio with a design that does not currently exist!
Al
AB2ZY
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