Brian K3KO wrote:
This comes from June 2013 QST page 59. First of all, Chen's article is about transmit filtering which is not directly translatable to optimal receive filtering. Second, the cascade effect of the K3 crystal filter and DSP filter must be considered in determining the net receive bandwidth. So very different net receiver bandwidths result depending on what DSP bandwidth is used with the engaged crystal filter bandwidth, e.g., KFLA250 which is really a 370 Hz filter. Third, the ideal receive bandwidth for optimal decoding is not the same as the transmit bandwidth for minimum QRM. Depending on the decoder, a receiver bandwidth of around 400 Hz is optimum ... unless there is such a heavy QRM situation that a better overall system trade-off is obtained with narrower, e.g., 250 Hz, net IF bandwidth. A transmit filter of 280 Hz is an optimum trade-off between minimizing QRM to neighboring QSOs and maintaining signal integrity for the intended receiver. Finally, this transmit filter can be implemented in either the radio or the encoder. MMTTY, for example, provides a number of transmit filter bandwidths and the default 48-tap TX bandwidth for AFSK meets Chen's proposal. Ed W0YK According to W7AY: The ideal RTTY filter is 280 Hz wide. Narrowing it further by 60 Hz doubles the error rate. The article references: http://www.w7ay.net/site/Technical/RTTY%20Transmit%20Filters/index.html Which doesn't come out and say the above! It's talking about transmit filters. W7AY doesn't like uneven power in transmit tones either. Anyhow this may confirm what has been said on this reflector. The 350 Hz (AKA 250 Hz) filter is probably the narrowest practical choice for RTTY. ______________________________________________________________ Elecraft mailing list Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm Post: mailto:Elecraft@mailman.qth.net This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html
