Word spread rapidly! Commercial short wave SSB broadcasters were contacting the group seeking information and equipment choices in order to improve their commercial broadcast sound. Only source available at the time for implementing external audio processing for amateur radio ssb. KC4PE was also the first to provide a website dedicated to SSB audio processing. Level, by way of his background and business in home theater installations and in his interesting way of providing information It should also be noted that Bill Winkis, KC4PE, also had a major influence on driving the SSB audio experimentation to the next Bill was the most elegant and charismatic advocateįor SSB audio experimentation and everyone knew it! He had a style about him, that made everyone who listened to him, want to be a part of this exciting mode of operating. He was often referred to as " The Godfather of SSB Audio", and for good reason.īill's relentless enthusiasm for good audio, combined with his diplomatic and infectious way of speaking about audio, made for an irresistible combination for those listening. It should be noted that the single most driving force behind the initial SSB audio experimentation was Bill Salerno, W2ONV.
With a little EQing of the externalĪudio feed, 4kHz to 4.5kHz of audio could be easily accomplished. (with DSP built-in) which by default provided a transmitted audio bandwidth of about 3.8kHz. More importantly, they were all using the new Kenwood TS-950SDX Operating on 14.205 MHz, they employed the use of external audioĮqualizers to shape the audio characteristics of their transmitters.
Essb audio settings professional#
New applications, and now the use of professional microphones. The initial group consisting of W2ONV as the moderator, G0BBD, EA3OT, W2JVM, KC4PE, and K2GX met daily, discussing new equipment, Immediately the world of audio processors, "Black Boxes"įrom the recording/music industry, was opened to the world of amateur radio and was achieving some very interesting and good sounding audio results. Harold, reporting to a now forming audio group on 20 meters, told about EA3OT startling to explore a better sounding SSB and the equipment that he was using. To 2800 Hz), were exchanging their rigs for the wider audio produced by the Kenwood products. Immediately, the SSB audio research group, that were all using the Yaesu FT-1000 (100 No one at first could obtain the sound of G0BBD because he was using a Kenwood TS-950SD, giving him a natural 0 to 3500 Hz audio range. Time, was forming a kids rock band, so he borrowed a Roland Boss Graphic EQ, resulting in the infancy of high quality SSB. Eddy told Michael to find an EQ from a stereo system, car audio, or whatever, and hook it up to the transceiver's microphone input. He was using on his 950SD, to improve his sound. It was Eddy, a retired A & R (artists & repertoire) man for RCA records, now retired in London, who told EA3OT about his use of a car 8-band audio equalizer that A friend of WA2JVM (now W2JVM), MichaelĮA3OT called a friend of his, G0BBD, Eddy Beneau. Single sideband), decided to improve the intelligibility and quality of SSB to a more natural sounding mode and paying paticularĪttention to very low distortion of the audio envelope produced.ĭuring this early period, W2ONV and WA2JVM were modifying D-104’s and microphone wind socks, trying to achieve a " Broadcast Quality" sound, using the SSB mode. In the early 1990's, a group of amateur radio operators, who were tired of the poor audio quality (generally associated with Recent History and the First Phase (1990~1999)
The last few generations of amateur radio technology and the operators who have taken advantage of it, that will be covered here regarding eSSB history. filter schemes, have made high-fidelity SSB much more widely available.
However, fairly recent changes in technology, with the introduction of “Digital Signal Processing” (DSP) and better I.F.
Amateur radio operators have been experimenting with good single sideband audio, in one way or another, ever since single sideband was developed. While the term “ eSSB” is a relatively new term used to describe the extended nature of higher fidelity single sideband (coined January of 2003 by NU9N), the experimentation with highįidelity single sideband is not so new.
0 kommentar(er)
