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Re: Topband: Narrow Filtering

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Subject: Re: Topband: Narrow Filtering
From: "Richard (Rick) Karlquist" <richard@karlquist.com>
Date: Wed, 03 Feb 2010 08:59:02 -0800
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Joe Subich, W4TV wrote:
>> The real solution is for everyone to learn how to tune their 
>> radios to the right frequency.
> 
> Unfortunately, for some who are afflicted by what the musicians 
> call a "tin ear" +/- 200 Hz may well be "the right frequency" - 
> at least as well as they can tell it.  Tuning to the right 
> frequency gets to be a bigger challenge with quick transmissions, 
> weak signals, QRN, QSB, and a lot of strong close by stations 
> with their clicks and phase noise. 
> 
> 73, 
> 
>    ... Joe, W4TV 

Operators who are challenged to tune by ear might do well to use a 
visual tuning indicator.  My FT1000 has one built in.

Rick N6RK
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