Topband: 3B9C, #190 with 100 Watts

[W2pm at aol.com]

Here in very noisy NNJ with a small lot I agree with K1HTV's guidance here 
except I'd add that when using the big tx antenna on rx I don't use the max 
ceramic filtering but tighten the selectivity wiht the passband controls (TS850) 
as the ringing associated with the 500 and 270 hz filters with such high 
intensity noise degrades the S/N ratio worse than using the SSB filtering with very 
tight passband settings.  Sometimes I can use the 500Hz hi IF filter while 
using the SSB low filter - depends on how high the local crud level..  Thankfully 
here for the past 6 weeks the local crud is fairly low save for an 
occassional bad day so I can copy the DX well on the Inv L.  DF2PY, IV3PRK and SV3RF 
were like locals last night - Wolf was actually S9+20.

In a message dated 3/26/2004 9:15:31 AM Eastern Standard Time, 

k1htv at verizon.net writes:

> The key to using the vertical on receive is to tighten up the CW 
> bandwith as much as possible. Narrow CW filters are used in both
> the high IF &low IF in the TS850, and the HI &LO IF slope 
> controls are adjusted to tighten the received bandwidth even more 
> to reduce to increase the SNR. It has worked for me for years and 
> is one of the reasons why I've been able to hear as much of the DX
> that has made it into the K1HTV log over the years.
>