Unlike the phone guys, most CW guys could care less about audio
distortion or quality for that weak one. They just want to be able to
copy it. The information is in the off's and on's, the rest doesn't
matter.
The old QF-1 Q-muliplier had an advertised Q of 4000 @ 455KHz. That's a
bandwidth of about 100Hz. There was some skill requiring adjusting
several knobs to make it work for you. Of course, any K3 implementation
would have to be knobless.
73 de Brian/K3KO
Bill Tippett wrote:
> More generally, the APF proponents seem to have the problem that they
treat it almost as magic. If they could characterise what it does in
terms of filtering, AF gain adjustment, distortion etc. it should be
possible to simulate it in DSP, subject only to having enough processing
power. In particular, peaking just seems to me to mean turning up the
AF gain in parallel with reducing the bandwidth. If that is all that it
is doing, and if the K3 has soft AF gain controls, a plugin box could
issue both commands in parallel.
The circuit in question is on page 54 of the FT1000 schematic below:
<http://www.radioamateur.eu/schemi/FT1000_user.pdf>http://www.radioamateur.eu/schemi/FT1000_user.pdf
The APF is around Q3016-2 (including Rs 3062, 3065, 3067 per the
"un-modification" sheet on N1EU's website below). The circuit
schematic above has *not* been modified to the (incorrect) values
shown in the Yaesu service bulletin.
http://n1eu.com/Mods/apf.pdf
The FT-1000's APF is generally regarded by many as the best APF ever
done. It should be possible to plug this into a circuit simulator
and generate a frequency response plot that Lyle can emulate in the
DSP. I have a feeling that this is a very narrow and high-Q response
that is on the verge of ringing, but it should be possible to
duplicate the circuit in the DSP.
73, Bill W4ZV
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