All true.?
As for impairments¡blindness is, paradoxically, no big deal and also not for wimps :-) And ham radio has been great in a lot of respects, including in travel to other states and other countries. It kept my sanity when in Ukraine for five weeks adopting my daughter in 2004, when we were literally locked in because the adoption guy had no idea what else to do with us. The KX1 was a great travel companion back then, though obviously not a lot of great contacts with just a wire tossed out a 6th story apartment and another counterpoise lying across the floor. Still helped with not climbing the walls.?
Getting hf station back on the air, after not being very active for theist couple years, so maybe will see you on the bands sometime. Am about 90% cw, usually with a straight key or bug.?
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On Apr 23, 2018, at 12:32 PM, Gordon Gibby <
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?man, my hat is off? to you getting ANYTHING done with such impediments!? ?More power to you!!!!
If there isn't any statc---there's not much propagation either!!!
Gordon
Hey Gordon,
Agreed about the super duper narrow filters. With all of the ways to crank down the bandwidth and peak the audio and reduce the noise and what not that are on my KX3, I rarely use much of that myself and, unless the bands are very crowded, open the receiver up some besides. Strange as it may sound, I find the background atmospheric noise soothing. Well, except maybe not so much the 80m static crashes.?
Now, after 30 years of being a ham, I¡¯m interested in trying some kit building myself¡it¡¯s one aspect I feel like I¡¯ve missed out on¡especially now that I have a willing assistant :-) Still¡being blind, these tiny parts make me a little nervous, and surface mount stuff is just right out. Anyway, think my YL and I can tackle a UBitx sometime soonish.?
Vy 73
On Apr 23, 2018, at 12:15 PM, Gordon Gibby <
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?I actually sorta like a wider bandwidth, unless I have a really interfering signal.
A couple decades ago I remember actually building a LC audio filter --- toroids & capacitors and maybe even a vacuum tube!!!? ?to run a headset.? ?I may even still have the thing.
Nowadays it is ducksoup to put something like that together with all the integrated circuits and I think I seem them advertized all over.? ??
Narrower than 500 hz makes my head hurt!
Cheers -- to each his own!!!!!
gordon
??Ehhh! Listening to cw with a 2.someKHz filter is good for you! It will hone your cw listening skills and let you learn to pick the right signal out :-)?
In all seriousness, Gordon¡¯s suggestion of an audio filter is a good one. While it¡¯s not really the same as a filter in the receiver, they¡¯re pretty good¡or can be¡and certainly can be very effective. I reckon that a DSP-based filter would be a bit beyond the capability of the Arduino. Also probably not exactly cost effective as compared to the rest of the radio.?
Do remember this is a really low-cost radio, and you probably won¡¯t get Icom performance, or probably not even Xiegu performance, out of it, though I¡¯m sure what you will get will be pretty decent¡especially given how popular the rig seems to be.?
Vy 73, de KB5ELV
On Apr 23, 2018, at 11:53 AM, Gordon Gibby <
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Just add an audio filter to achieve whatever bandwidth you prefer would be my suggestion
I've heard that the ubitx doesn't work very well for CW due to being too wide in the receiving end. How are some of you correcting this? Particularly, how can someone who can handle a soldering iron but is not an electronics whiz, adapt the ubitx for practical CW operation??
Thanks and 73
Brady KD8ZM?
