[TenTec] Question regarding Omni VI+ on SSB

[Jim Brown]

I've never owned a Jupiter, so this is an educated guess. I suspect it is a 
low-cut for the transmit audio. I would set it by ear listening to your 
transmit audio and by getting signal reports from smart guys on the 
other end, but somewhere in the 400 Hz range is probably a good 
starting point.  

Think of it this way -- anything below 400 Hz is useless for 
communications.  Telephones, for example, transmit nothing below 
about 400 Hz.   But your mic will produce a lot of audio below 400 Hz, 
and that will use up transmitter power. so filtering it out is a good thing. 

The guys on 14.175 would disagree with me. But I'm coming from my 
world of REAL pro audio, where the big music systems I design do 105 
dBSPL from 30 Hz to 15 kHz for 5,000 people. There's where wide 
audio bandwidth is needed -- not on the ham bands. 

Jim

On Thu, 25 Nov 2004 16:12:42 -0800, NJ0IP wrote:

>Jim that was a very informative and useful post.
>
>Perhaps you can answer another question of mine.
>
>What is the "TX Rolloff" on the Jupiter?
>It is a menu adjustment which goes from 0 Hz to 1270 Hz.
>I couldn't find any reference to it in the Jupiter manual.
>
>73
>Rick
>
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>On Wed, 24 Nov 2004 18:27:11 -0500, Jeff Frank wrote:
>
>>ll you guys who report about the great audio reports you receive on 
ssb
>>with the Omni 6 series please tell me what microphones or 
microphone 
>hook
>>ups you are using. 
>
>Ah -- you bring up a very interesting defect in the design of the Ten Tec
>rigs. 
>You can't use a "flat" mic with them, you need to use one that has a 
"hyped"
>
>high end. That's what the Heil mics do. A good mic sounds really dull 
and 
>bassy on a Ten Tec radio. 
>
>I use an RE-27, which is a pretty flat mic (and a damn good one) with 
mine. 
>But to make it sound good, I had to stick a rather small cap in series 
with
>it 
>to drastically roll off the low end (-3 dB at roughly 2 kHz). It is absurd
>that it 
>should be necessary to do that, but it is. This is a "band-aid," but it
>works. I 
>even have an audio file that NY9H recorded off the air several months 
ago 
>on 20 meters from Chicago, when I was operating this rig at W6BX, a 
2,000 
>mile path. It's this mic, the cap, and the Omni V. I could email the file if
>
>anyone cares. 
>
>The Shure 444 and mics like it have the hyped high end that sounds 
pretty 
>good with the Omni family of radios. I bought one for that reason. BTW 
-- 
>there's no good reason to spend money on a Heil mic to get that sound 
-- a 
>used 444, $30 on EBay, will sound at least as good as a Heil. For that 
>matter, I bought three Plantronics earsets for $5 each at a hamfest last
>year. 
>They get MUCH better reports on my 746 than a Heil does on my K2.  
You 
>can buy the Plantronics earsets (earphone plus mic) for $25 - $40 
brand 
>new at computer stores. 
>
>Now, you say, why in the world would you use an RE-27 on a ham rig?  
>Simple. I'm in the pro audio biz and own a lot of very good mics, but 
very
>few 
>dynamic mics. Also, most dynamic mics have proximity effect, which 
boosts 
>the low end (makes them muddy) when you close-talk them).  I didn't 
have a 
>dedicated ham mic, needed one to use with the Omni V I had just 
bought, 
>and the RE-27 came the closest to what should work well. It is a 
dynamic (I 
>only have three types) it  has no proximity effect because it is a
>variable-D 
>cardioid, and it has a lot of output.  Isn't it serious overkill?  If I had
>to buy it, 
>yes. But if I have several laying around, no. 
>
>
>Jim Brown  K9YC
>
>
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