[TenTec] field day from hell

[Bill Fuqua]

The Human ear and its associated processor (the human brain) works very 
well. I wonder if there has ever been a real study on the usefulness of DSP 
in communications situations where adaptive noise reduction is used. It 
perhaps may reduce strain and fatigue by performing some pre-filtering for 
the operator.

By the way. I never got an answer about the "noise blanker" in the new 
Argonaut V.

I was wanting to hear from someone who has been able to compare the noise 
blanking function of the Argonaut V with some other radio with an effective 
noise blanker. The one in the Argonaut V is not a real noise blanker. It 
uses the DSP. And by doing the noise pulses have been passed thru a fairly 
narrow bandpass filter that convolutes the high amplitude narrow pulses 
into low amplitude, long pulses that are difficult if in not impossible 
to  to actually blank out.

If someone can do a side by side comparison of the Argonaut V and another 
radio with a good noise blanker and email the results to  me, I would 
appreciate it. This is one reservation I have about buying an Argonaut V.

73
Bill wa4lav


73
Bill wa4lav



At 06:49 PM 8/5/2003 -0500, you wrote:
>yep - should have checked my screet - it is CWget - sorry.  But I've found
>that with DSP NR on my OMNI VI (in atmospheric noise conditions) and a
>narrow filter, it performs well.  Not as good as a human ear, though.
>
>Dave
>
>-----Original Message-----
>From: tentec-bounces at contesting.com
>[mailto:tentec-bounces at contesting.com]On Behalf Of David McClafferty
>Sent: Friday, July 11, 2003 1:51 PM
>To: tentec at contesting.com
>Subject: Re: [TenTec] field day from hell
>
>
>A Google search only found CWget, no GetCW. I have
>CWget and find it to be one of the best but it will
>only copy really well when the signal is strong and
>clean.
>
>Dave, VE1ADH
>
>  --- "David W LeJeune, Sr" <lejeuned at centurytel.net>
>wrote: > Try GetCW - a google search will find it for
>you.
> > Freeware, and really
> > works, except on really slow (10wpm) CW.
> >
> > Dave
> > ----- Original Message -----
> > From: "David McClafferty" <ve1adh at yahoo.ca>
> > To: <geraldj at isunet.net>; <tentec at contesting.com>
> > Sent: Friday, July 11, 2003 11:41 AM
> > Subject: Re: [TenTec] field day from hell
> >
> >
> > > I have tried all the CW software that I can find
> > and I
> > > think most of it is a waste of time. I learned to
> > copy
> > > on paper and when I got up to the fastest speed
> > that I
> > > could write it down, I thought using CW software
> > might
> > > be the asnwer. It works fine with a strong signal
> > and
> > > no QRN or QRM. I gave it up and am still working
> > on
> > > copying in my head.
> > >
> > > Dave. VE1ADH
> > >
> > >  --- "Dr. Gerald N. Johnson, electrical engineer"
> > > <geraldj at isunet.net> wrote: > At that point, why
> > not
> > > have the computer copy, then
> > > > the operator can
> > > > take a long siesta and wander back to see how
> > the
> > > > contest went. Where's
> > > > the OPERATOR SKILL in that? Like a local no code
> > > > Extra who claims 100
> > > > countries on CW but can't copy CW in the real
> > world.
> > > > Just spent the
> > > > right money on computer software and computer
> > > > controlled radios.
> > > >
> > > > The local logging software produced by ISU
> > students
> > > > hasn't been nearly
> > > > so sophisticated and often takes more time to
> > log
> > > > than to make the
> > > > contact, sometimes two or three times longer to
> > log
> > > > than to make
> > > > contests. I ran much better scores on paper logs
> > in
> > > > the past. Besides I
> > > > don't copy to keyboard nearly as fast or
> > accurately
> > > > as to paper.
> > > >
> > > > 73, Jerry, K0CQ
> > > >
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> > > > electrical engineer.
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