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ClearSpeech
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After being told by several hams how great the ClearSpeech DSP
performed, I decided to pick one up in Dayton. Sold Out! OK, no shipping charges and a good discount for a 4-week wait. I got it yesterday at last. I hooked it up to the the 817 and the SP-8 speaker. This device takes the external speaker output of the 817 and processes it before feeding it to the external speaker. ClearSpeech is manufactured by Noise Cancellation Technologies (NCT Group) and sold by Am-Com (www.amcominc.com). I have tried it on CW and SSB. The noise reduction is impressive and allowed me to hear stations that I couldn't otherwise. It costs about the same as a filter for the 817 and is well worth it. Now I have to figure out how to share it with my other rigs! 72 de Barry - W4WB |
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John O. Newell
Good report, Barry, tnx.
Two questions for the group. I went to eHam and read the reviews there as well. Sounds interesting... If you were prioritizing (echhh! <g>) purchases between the SSB filter and the ClearSpeech unit, do you have any feeling that one would be a better value than the other? Also, has anyone tried the version that is built into the external speaker? Looks like it's designed for use in a vehicle but could do duty in the shack as well? Tnx and 73 John Newell KB1FPM |
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I've been using the ClearSpeech speaker in my truck for about
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a year. I use it with my Ten Tec Scout. Believe me, it makes a difference, especially in my Dodge truck which generates quite a bit of white noise. Signals that you can barely hear without the speaker jump right up to perfectly readable when the thing is turned on. Even without the engine running, the speaker takes out pretty much all of the background band noise, making even weak signals pop up enough to hear clearly. The speaker is kind of expensive ($150), but I'm glad I bought one. 73, Mike Newell - WB4HUC Austin, TX ----- Original Message -----
From: John O. Newell <jnewell@...> To: <FT817@...> Sent: Saturday, June 16, 2001 8:13 PM Subject: Re: [FT817] ClearSpeech Good report, Barry, tnx.Questions ) see Please note that your messages and files sent to this group become publicdomain upon submission and may appear anywhere on the Internet or in print without notice or compensation.
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Hi John,
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I know folks with the speaker version and they like it. In Dayton, I heard the demo using it and it was also impressive. Good question you asked. If you got a $150 in your pocket, which one? Not easy to answer. With the ClearSpeech, you will hear even more stations that are weak and that you likely can not work due to the QRP. More frustration perhaps. On the other hand, I am finding it less tiring by not having to contend with noise background at its former level. A real big plus. Now with the SSB filter, we now have measured SSB on-the-air improvement to be about 2 dB over the stock filter and the clarity of the audio is improved thereby making it just a bit easier to make those marginal QSO. So I don't know which to suggest. Maybe do as I did, get both and be happy. But then the issue of getting the CW filter back into the rig still lingers .... maybe I or someone else will figure out a way to replace the stock filter with the SSB filter. 72 de Barry - W4WB --- In FT817@y..., "John O. Newell" <jnewell@m...> wrote:
Good report, Barry, tnx. |
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