RE: [Elecraft] K3 - Which filters to get?

2007-07-19 Thread J. Edward (Ed) Muns
> Now that the time has come to chose filters, which ones will > you get? What are people doing? The easiest is to outfit > both receivers with five filters each. With that money, you > can buy another radio. Will you put a wide and narrow > filter in each radio? I primarily use CW, but d

[Elecraft] K3 - Which filters to get?

2007-07-19 Thread Tom Hammond
Ed K1EP wrote: Now that the time has come to chose filters, which ones will you get? What are people doing? The easiest is to outfit both receivers with five filters each. With that money, you can buy another radio. Will you put a wide and narrow filter in each radio? I primarily use CW,

RE: [Elecraft] K3 - Which filters to get?

2007-07-19 Thread Brett gazdzinski
I just went with the stock 2.7, the 6kc AM filter, and the 15? kHz FM filter. I doubt I would ever use FM, but who knows. Plus, you can use the FM filter for short wave broadcast reception and get to about 7kc in audio out. If I was into DX or contests on CW, I would likely get a narrow CW filter,

Re: [Elecraft] K3 - Which filters to get?

2007-07-19 Thread Simon Brown (HB9DRV)
I'm ordering one narrow filter and one very wide, both for digital use. Filters are not a very big deal here - no strong signals from steroid enhanced contest stations, just the local electric fence and my computer network. Narrow filter - to see what it does compared to just the DSP, wide -

Re: [Elecraft] K3 - Which filters to get?

2007-07-19 Thread Julian G4ILO
On 7/19/07, Ed K1EP <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Now that the time has come to chose filters, which ones will you get? What are people doing? The easiest is to outfit both receivers with five filters each. With that money, you can buy another radio. Will you put a wide and narrow filter in

Re: [Elecraft] K3 - Which filters to get?

2007-07-18 Thread K4IA
Remember these are roofing filters not the normal bandwidth filters we are used to. The DSP is going to provide the final filtering. All the roofing filter does is reduce the width of the front end. Therefore, you might not need all of them or any of them depending on the type of operat

[Elecraft] K3 - Which filters to get?

2007-07-18 Thread Fred (FL)
What with the cost for "5" filters - has anyone figured out how to DESIGN & BUILD their own compatable K3 filters - that would be compatable with the K3? Active filters, a filter design program, blank filter PCB's, - and all that? Fred, de N3CSY __

[Elecraft] K3 - Which filters to get?

2007-07-18 Thread Ed K1EP
Now that the time has come to chose filters, which ones will you get? What are people doing? The easiest is to outfit both receivers with five filters each. With that money, you can buy another radio. Will you put a wide and narrow filter in each radio? I primarily use CW, but do both CW a