[Amps] Audio BW -- Please just let us operate!!

[Rob Atkinson, K5UJ]

Actually Steve, the problem is usually that these stations are transmitting 
plenty of high end, (I have yet to hear of any ham who invests in the gear 
necessary to tx nice full audio and only bothers with the bottom 200 hz) but 
people such as yourself are listening on receivers with 2.7 or less 
bandwidth so you don't copy any of the high end--your rx chops it off.  If 
you had for example, a kenwood 870 opened to 6, 4.8 or even 3 khz you'd 
discover a world of difference.  Oh, but then they would be too wide.  So, 
let's see--to make people like you happy, they have to give up on what they 
are doing, which essentially seems to be the ARRL board's philosophy also.  
That's great.  I'm surprised the ARRL doesn't petition the FCC to shut down 
HDTV because most of their membership probably do not own HDTV sets and all 
these tv stations are hogging two channels.  It's basically the same logic.

No, bass in and of itself does not cause "splatter."

73,
rob/k5uj

<<<hey Joe

the issue is not the bassiness itself, the issue is that bass uses up so 
much power.
i cannot copy a bass boosted signal at S-9
the op has to boost his high end so his "audience" can copy him, so in this 
case we have 2 issues: 1) splatter caused by all that bass  2) increased hi 
frequency components that do make the signal wide

steven    W4IIV>>>

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