Whoops,
Folks, discrete passband tuning will work best by using the same fiilter width for all the filters - I had a slip of memory and temporarily forgot that the CW and CWr filters share the same bandwidth. I guess discrete passband tuning could be something for the RTTY filters - now how do we get the sidetone offset integrated into the RTTY filters? And how do we activate keying and other CW funtions in RTTY mode since that is really treated as a special case of SSB? Problems, problems, problems. -- for CW use it has to be the CW filters.

I am still going to try the discrete passband tuning as well - My current thoughts - leave FL1 wide but usable (1.0 kHz or 800 Hz). then go to passband tuning with FL2, 3 and 4 with a 400 Hz filter width; center FL2 at 650 Hz, FL3 at 750 Hz, and FL4 at 550 Hz (assuming a 600 Hz sidetone). That should allow a normal 400 Hz filter for crowded band use (FL2) plus the ability to drop a lower pitched interfering signal out with FL3 and a higher frequency interfering signal out with FL4. Turn the centering for FL3 and 4 around if you want to drop off the high end first and the low end with FL4. I assume most listening would be done with FL1 or FL2 This scheme should allow better rejection than a narrower filiter and avoid the attenuation that occurs with very narrow filters.

An extension of the above, one could use CWr to drop off the high frequency side and CW to drop the low frequency side (or vice-versa) that would still provide a wide filter for FL1 (but 2 BFOs), and 400 Hz for all the rest, giving the normal centered filter plus 5 shifted passband positions. Let your imagination run wild and try it out.

73,
Don W3FPR

----- Original Message -----
W3FPR - Don Wilhelm wrote:

  Also, I seldom use the reverse sideband for CW, and
there is no reason that the BFOs have to be set for sideband reversal -

As someone who has done a lot of playing with the K2's filters, tried discrete passband tuning, etc., I have to say:

Neat idea! Why didn't I think of it? Another passband position for each filter width!




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