I would be acting to counter one of the reasons I chose the rig I presently operate. So the wider the signal the less of it we can hear. Take someone under our arm, be an ELMER and be kind to your neighborĪm I impressed with ESSB,about as much as with any source of QRM.Īctually I don't notice the difference except that the audio is at a lower level and with SSB that means the signal strength falls off at a rate of 3dB /octave. Have fun because that is what amateur radio is about. No matter how you feel on the subject of ESSB,
Not to mention other things that come into play like the limited bandwidth typically that of 3kc on SSB.
Nothing (ESSB / Enhanced SSB) when it comes SSB operation on amateur radio. Yes I like a good microphone! But personally I think all this chatter about ESSB is a bunch of hoopla about All these things come into play as well as the age of the person listening. Things such as RF conversion going on in the transmitter and receiver, high frequency noise from atmospheric conditions and then the quality of the transducer on the receiver end (More commonly called a speaker!) and finally things like acoustics of the ham shack. In amateur radio we also have other thing to contend with that may have an overall effect on what will be heard on the receiving end. The ability to reproduce these sounds depends on a lot of factors, including not only to point of origin where it begins as in the case of an amateur radio transmitter sound begins at the microphone. If we look at sound in very general terms, sound waves vary in length according to their frequency. Sound can be audible to the human ear or it can be outside the hearing range, as in the case of a dog’s ability to hear way beyond the human ear. Lets face it, the audio frequency range extends from 20 Hertz to 20,000 Hertz, with the average person some place in the middle and with the media age of most ham operators being 55+ years of age, they more then likely can't hear all that well to begin with. However is it really necessary to have a multi mega buck transceiver with an equalizer attached? I talked on and I still use the Astatic D-10 on most all of my vintage tube type equipment. In my opinion there is nothing in the world wrong with a nice microphone like some of the beautiful microphone now in production by Mr. Near Broadcast Quality Audio, ESSB, Do we really need it? Trying to build up a litttle activity there. Hi gang, since many of you are audio experts, maybe you would like to contribute to our thead on the public form at Fox Tango.