I agree also. I find excessive Bass response (well, I call it excessive,
YMMV) is unpleasant to the ear, and it wastes energy in the wrong part of
the spectrum when trying to work DX or a Contest. I never rag chew on SSB
so that shapes my thinking obviously.
73 de Gary, AA2IZ
----- Original Message -----
From: <RaySoifer@cs.com>
To: <tentec@contesting.com>
Sent: Thursday, February 16, 2006 11:40 AM
Subject: Re: [TenTec] Firmware update - Argo's turn!
> In a message dated 2/16/06 4:16:20 PM GMT Standard Time, wb8yqj@yahoo.com
> writes:
> > I'd also like to see the 6db attenuation removed from
> > the lower 500 cycles of the transmitted SSB signal, to
> > make the radio sound the same on SSB as it does on AM
> > or FM fone.
> >
>
> I beg to differ, at least to the extent that I would like the audio
response
> to be user-selectable. Reducing the bass roll-off would adversely affect
the
> radio's ability to get through DX pile-ups, and otherwise to be heard when
the
> S/N ratio is low. Some of us are DXers, not ragchewers! (I prefer to do
my
> ragchewing on CW, hi)
>
> I have previously suggested this to ditsnbits.
>
> 73,
>
> Ray W2RS
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