Well, now that you have decided to quit writing, and set back for a while, I want to take another whack at it.
Rules and Regulations stipulate that the Amateur Radio Service is to be used to COMMUNICATE, NOT for ENTERTAINMENT ! The differences between the audio characteristics for those two purposes is profound. I was a broadcast engineer for over 25 years before getting into the Satellite Digital Radio design and fabrication business, and I think I have a better than average knowledge of what sounds good and what doesn't ! I also believe that I have a better than average knowledge of what is necessary for good communications requirements.īottom line, F.C.C. I hope you can realize from this, that I am not just forming an opinion about something I have not listened to and studied with great interest. After all, someone who is trying to show ESSB to best advantage is NOT going to put the worst samples of the mode on their web site!
Other samples on the URL showed marked selective fading and phase distortion effects, although my "live" listening sessions made me more aware of these effects, due to the fact that I listened longer and over more varied propagation conditions than the audio clips revealed. On several samples, I heard the usual "tuner-uppers" with the added irritation of even higher pitched hetrodynes than normally heard with my standard SSB transceiver ( out to in excess of 6 khz up to nearly 10 khz at reduced volume ) Coupled with this was more pronounced "buckshot" and sideband energy from stations close by in frequency ( this QRM was of the same nature as the hetrodynes, higher in pitch and louder in amplitude, due to the wider "window" of the bandpass filters. What do I hear when I tune in to ESSB signals, or listen to the audio clips at your choice URL site ? Let me illucidate. And I wanted to see if the QSO samples had anything to offer that sounded better than what I have heard during my own sampling/listening sessions. For one, I wanted to suppliment the samples of QSOs that I have monitored off the air with my old SWL radio ( Tube-type receiver, bandwidth in excess of 8Khz, standard diode detector and RF/IF circuitry similar to "all-american 5" ) It is excessivly wide-band for standard SSB use, but excellent for AM broadcastband and ESSB signals. 24 2006,20:41)]N3JI, well, I finally went and listened to your audio clip examples, for two reasons.
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