Topband: how to hear through static crashes?

Mike Waters mikewate at gmail.com
Tue Mar 27 10:41:21 PDT 2012


Yup. Built a similar circuit myself, before I was even licensed. No
batteries, and a SPDT switch to select the clipping level instead of pots.
I still use it whenever I put the headphones on.

As a bonus, it really helps us hear weak CW signals that are buried in the
noise. The clipping changes the CW sine wave to one rich in harmonics, and
does that ever help!

Photos at http://www.w0btu.com/files/misc/W0BTU%20Audio%20Clipper/ .

73, Mike
www.w0btu.com

On Tue, Mar 27, 2012 at 2:14 PM, Bruce <k1fz at myfairpoint.net> wrote:

> ... I found a good remedy. An old ARRL handbook had a diagram of two
> diodes (one for positive peaks, the other for negative peaks) biased with
>  batteries, plus variable  pots, to clamp headphone audio
>


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