[CQ-Contest] Receiver adjustments in CW contest conditions
Jim Brown
k9yc at audiosystemsgroup.com
Thu Dec 16 01:22:13 EST 2021
On 12/15/2021 2:52 PM, Hans Brakob wrote:
> Now consider if I used a sidetone of 800Hz (for an example). The same fellow fires up 100Hz away. Now the percentage of separation drops to 12.5% (from 33%) and my wetware will have a much more difficult time rejecting the interference.
Yep. I too figured that out long ago, although my preferred sidetone is
around 500 Hz. And the downside of a low sidetone is that it's too easy
to miss slightly off-frequency callers on the low side.
73, Jim K9YC
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