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Registrace 22. 07. 2015
Welcome to my channel. Dedicated to experimentation and dedicated to creating some of the best videogates the CB radio and Amateur radio community has to offer.
Optimizing the Icom 7300 for ESSB reception
Even though the Icom 7300's BW is very limited, we can at least slide the I.F. filter to a reasonable range in the 3.6k BW setting. An important thing to note here is that the low frequency cutoff in the Icom is far from ideal. Although the low cutoff was set at 100Hz, it will pass audio frequencies well below that whereas Thetis filters are as close to ideal as it gets, producing razor sharp cutoff's. As explained in my last video, listen through good headphones or speakers!
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Tone testing phone speaker vs headphones/speakers
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Get the most out of ESSB signals by listening through good speakers or headphones! Whether live or in a recording, you are cheating yourself out of great audio by listening through cheap speakers or a cell phone speaker.
Speaker to headphone level then Cobra 148GTL vs Icom 7300
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I made the Kicker contraption a few years ago and decided to bring it back for some experiments with my mobile CB radios that only have the external speaker out. Obviously the Icom 7300 is a far superior receiver than the Cobra 148GTL but I wish Icom would provide the ability to expand the receive filters wider. If you can, listen to the receive comparisons with good headphones or speakers.
Hermes Lite 2+ mic and hand keyer cable prototype.
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This was a fun project! Now that I know that it is proved and it works properly, I will make a much nicer version.
Hermes Lite 2+ 10kc AM TX with NO external audio processing
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Here we go with the Hermes Lite 2 at 10kc on AM with no external audio processing and a Thetis pre-set TX profile.
ANAN and Thetis AM audio linearity test. NO audio processing experiment.
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Once again the ANAN and Thetis continue to amaze me. Here I pipe in raw unprocessed mic audio into the line IN jack on the ANAN.
Thetis 10kc pre-set TX profile. AM transmit test
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I forgot to mention that the AM carrier level in the stock 10kc profile was set to 95 which explains the higher positive peaks.
Thetis TX profiles with slight adjustments. Bonus video at end.
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Here I made ever so slight adjustments to some of the Thetis pre-set audio profiles. So slight in fact, that you may not be able to tell the difference depending on what you are listening to this on. These adjustments are by no means absolute or final, but just a fun way of getting a feel for Thetis on board audio tools. Another thing to note, most of these Thetis TX profiles edited or stock so...
Thetis pre-set audio/TX profiles only. No external audio processing.
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In the transmit segment of this video, what you are hearing is the receive of station B and what you are seeing is station A transmit performance using the pre-set TX profiles that come with Thetis. To accommodate all of the various TX bandwidths, I left station B RX filter set to 50 thru 5kc.
KP68 at the Pirates game. PNC Park.
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I have to laugh over how many times I said "what a beautiful day". It's just that I haven't been out and about for over a year and this was quite the treat! I didn't care who the Pirates were playing or if they won or lost. Today was a wonderful taste of freedom.
ANAN 7000DLE mkii 10kc AM to Hermes HL2+
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I just wanted to do a follow-up to yesterdays video. Same as yesterday but this time with the Apache (station A) in transmit and the Hermes Lite 2 (station B) in receive. During the music portion no pre-emphasis or EQ'ing was used during TX.
Hermes Lite 2 plus 10kc AM demo
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Hello all! In this demo/experiment is the Hermes Lite 2 plus (station B) transmitting on AM at 10kc or 20kc total occupied frequency bandwidth. In receive is the ANAN 7000DLE MKii (station A) with its receive set to AM at 20kc.
ANAN 7000DLE mkii to Hermes Lite 2 + SSB local talk. READ DESCRIPTION
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This is my new 5kc sideband audio profile that uses nothing but the free plugins that Cakewalk by BandLab comes with. On the other end is my good friend WR742 on his Hermes Lite 2 plus, Thetis, and also using Cakewalk by BandLab. I could have spun my noise gate and reverb up just a tad more but not bad for a first tryout.
Mustang 131 CA. 813 Tampa Bay FL. 454 WV.
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Mustang 131 CA. 813 Tampa Bay FL. 454 WV.
40 meter Sunday night crew. Lots of great audio!
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40 meter Sunday night crew. Lots of great audio!
14ft by 8ft monster HAM radio screen! **Read Description**
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14ft by 8ft monster HAM radio screen! Read Description
742 on his Hermes Lite 2 plus. Lower sideband
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742 on his Hermes Lite 2 plus. Lower sideband
10 meter 10kc wide audio with W3DEP and KP
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10 meter 10kc wide audio with W3DEP and KP
40 meter Saturday morning W8NSS K8CIA KB2UKA
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40 meter Saturday morning W8NSS K8CIA KB2UKA
Iron Maiden - Wasted Years. BB Tubes plugin experiment.
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Iron Maiden - Wasted Years. BB Tubes plugin experiment.
Thetis TX key up audio burst cause and cure.
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Thetis TX key up audio burst cause and cure.
Shortwave radio listening setup on the 80 meter loop
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Shortwave radio listening setup on the 80 meter loop
75 meter awesome audio and some really good bad jokes lol.
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75 meter awesome audio and some really good bad jokes lol.
ANAN to Hermes 10kc AM transmit levels check experiment. **Read description**
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ANAN to Hermes 10kc AM transmit levels check experiment. Read description
Hermes Lite 2 plus AM TX test setup. Sinatra - It Was A very Good Year
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Hermes Lite 2 plus AM TX test setup. Sinatra - It Was A very Good Year
Hermes Lite 2 Plus with Texas Star DX350 HDV output test at 10kc.
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Hermes Lite 2 Plus with Texas Star DX350 HDV output test at 10kc.
Hermes Lite 2 Plus LSB air check. Station B TX to station A RX
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Hermes Lite 2 Plus LSB air check. Station B TX to station A RX
WR742 LSB 5k wide on Hermes Lite 2 Plus
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WR742 LSB 5k wide on Hermes Lite 2 Plus
Hermes Lite 2 Plus Build **READ DESCRIPTION**
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Hermes Lite 2 Plus Build READ DESCRIPTION
40 meter great audio! KG8Q before the storm
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40 meter great audio! KG8Q before the storm
Can the IC-705 do ESSB?
Very cool lost it at 28 on my speakers and was interesting to try different headphones as well
My Sony WH-1000X M3 headphones held firm at 25Hz but my stock stereo in my car dropped out at around 40Hz. Fun test!
Yo! I think you replayed the 148 back to back and didn’t put the Icom clip in. Good stuff, just wanted to hear the difference
@ChiefMade The second is clip is in fact the Icom 7300. I kept the same recording for both.
@@KP68videogates ok
I have a few Cobra 148’s and sounds awesome with the hifi mods but my Uniden Grant LT’s receive blows the cobra 148 out the water for some reason it’s one of the best receivers I’ve heard besides my Hermes Lite 346 BYU waving
Hey bud. Ya, CB receivers can be hit or miss. I have a stock Cobra 25LTD Classic that has amazing receive audio.
Hello my friend. Got to say that old cobra was certainly doing it's thing . Sounding excellent on my head phones . Was the cobra modded by you ? Or really by someone else ? 😂. 73s bud WR456 🇬🇧
Ha ha. Ya, it was modded by someone else. I got it in a gear swap with a friend. 73s right back my friend!
Nice Idea about the kiker attenuator
Thanks! I'm very happy with the way it performs.
Dude you’re lying!! That sounds great!!!
Very nice pizzel!
Lol. Thanks my friend!
I love your channel, I am a HL2 and 7000 DLE user. Both excellent radios. Wishing you well. de ON8EI
Thank you sir, that means a lot to me. I know I can be, how shall I say, an odd creative character lol. But at least I'm open an honest and try to put a smile on peoples faces in the weary world we live in.
Wow, I need to listen with headphones but, compared to the ANAN, it sounds great. I’m going to have to pull my HL2 back out and start playing with it again. Thanks!
Ya, I thought so too. I think I had the mic gain a bit high but still sounded great.
I couldn’t tell the difference lol
They are very close. If you haven't done so, listen to them with good headphones or something with good bass response.
Now let’s hear the Hermes Lite 2
You got it my friend. I'll try to get to it this weekend.
@@KP68videogates looking forward to it, thanks!
My channel got taken down but, maybe ill start posting a few videos again
@@GettowayDriverSoCal That's a bummer. I'd love to see some new videos from you. And by the way, here ya go bud. czcams.com/video/ILpsXS15im0/video.html
@@KP68videogates awesome, going to check it out
I'm trying to put my hermes station together. You are really helping with all these videos, thanks
You're welcome and thanks. Everything you see here in Thetis is the same for the Hermes BTW.
Thank you for your videos I enjoy them God bless you my Italian brother Mario Preacherman wishing you all the best God bless you.
I'm so glad you enjoy them and God bless right back!
Man I saw that lit up circle near your floor going around and around and thought my screen froze lol.
Ha ha!
God, that sdr software makes it look easy!
Hey 131 hope all is well down your way. It does make it easy. Most of those pre-set profiles sound good they way they are. Excellent for folks who don't want to start from scratch. Starting from scratch can be quite daunting for anyone new to audio processing. I wish I had this years ago when I got back into radio.
The internal audio adjustments in thetis are phenomenal.
Yes sir! Everything about Thetis is phenomenal. Maybe I'll make one more video on a more realistic AM band pass, like 5kc. I'm trying to get more people interested in Thetis, ANAN, and Hermes.
Great demonstrations.
Hello Doug! Thank you sir.
Thank you for this video and the effort it took to produce it. Look forward to the next video where you tweak a profile or two. I do like the SSB 2.8+CFC + DX as a base. BTW I run a G2 with the RE27ND. Nice Job Art W1SWL
Thank you sir. As I type this I am setting up for my next video. The G2 with that RE27ND you have is an awesome combination!
Crazy to hear the difference between 3 band and 10 band eq.
Right! I didn't expect that.
i love your enthusiasm man :D
Thank you sir. I appreciate that.
Cant say enough about the Hermes lite 2 and Thetis 10.3.4 MI0BOT version. Poor mans Flex Radio....Awesome!
Nice. I upgraded to latest Ramdor Thetis, but no AM audio on receive. Great.
Hello sir. I wonder if a setting must have been unchecked in the update. If you have receive audio in either of the sideband modes, toggle between sideband and AM and watch your screen for any changes. That happened to me once. For some reason my VAC was OFF in AM mode and ON in sideband. My eye noticed the change when toggling between AM and sideband.
@@KP68videogates Will check on that. Thanks.
Good stuff KP. I appreciate you helping me with my Cakewalk.. You made it a "cakewalk"
Thanks Truck! Thetis and Cakewalk is an killer combo.
Hermes lite 2 is an amazing radio. The best radio ever for the money and so many options for software.
Sir, you speak the truth! Amazing software. My greatest respects to those who constantly develop it.
K-PizzlePro* has to be one of the best revamped profiles. Very happy with the quality. Wish you aired the playbacks of the before and after, but I understand why. Very cool and awsome you do these information videos!
Thanks bud. It's nice to get back to basics. Next on the agenda is to make slight adjustments to this profile for local AM talking.
Thanks for the gate. Yea..i was running stupid level of swang!
No problemo bud! Conditions were finicky with that fading rolling across. You can see it in the spectral display but especially in the waterfall. I had to chuckle seeing your signal booming at 20dB but the rest of the band was flat line lol. Love that reverb and always have BTW. Very unique sounding. That swang is doing its thang! Sounding great as usual 131.
Thanks for making these. Man when I’m 20 over that audio sounds sweet lol.
No problem my friend. Ya, at 15-20 over that's when you can hear all of the fine details of your audio and anyone else's audio. And yes, you sound very sweet! You got it dialed in for sure.
what compression / compressor are you running Tony M0VDO
Hello Tony. I use a single Sonitus compressor near the beginning of my audio chain and a Sonitus multiband (5 bands) near the very end of my audio chain. Both compressors I use very sparingly. Once in a while I will use the Thetis compressor and that as well I use very sparingly at around 2dB.
I don't have the Plus add on, but the Hermes definitely impresses every time I fire it up.
I like the station monitor. I spend time doing AM mainly on 40m and 75m but have been lacking a way to fine tune my modulation with my Hermes Lite2. I looked up REA and book marked them, once I get my amp I will punch the button. Thanks for the video.
Nice on the AM. AM is where my heart is at. If I can remember, I'll do a video on how I set my modulation percentages in Thetis. Thanks for watching!
@@KP68videogates That would be great! The Hermes is picking up interest from AMI with several of us using them and showing the boat anchor crowed that they do indeed make a nice AM radio. My setup is very simple with the Hermes into a XPA125B amp and just using the built in Thetis EQ (that I am still fiddling with).
@@JReed305 Yes indeed they make a nice AM radio. I have heard some operators using nothing but Thetis audio tools (EQ and CFC) and they sound great. Although I'll always use my Cakewalk by Bandlab audio processing, I too am fiddling with the Thetis audio tools. Some fellas use a combination of both.
lamborghini?
Lamborghini.
Lol
@@Walker_328 Lol, I couldn't resist.
Made me laugh too much out loud 👍🏼
Sounds amazing to me. Especially on ssb. 👍. 73s WR456🇬🇧.
It sure does. Definitely stands out from the rest.
One of the days Im going to have time to get my stuff set up. I only hope your still around for questions when i screw it all up..... lol
Ha ha! Well hopefully I'll be around for a while. I'm still screwing things up lol. I guess if I screw things up a little less each time I'm on the right track.
We all here run 10kc SSB quite regular in our rag chews. No difference in occupied bandwidth than 5kc AM. Greetings from Davemade county NJ.
10kc SSB on a regular basis? My man, I'm coming out to hang out with you guys! I'm packing my things and headed your way! For the 11 meter fellas, roll the VFO to the very top of a CB channel, switch to LSB, and open up TX filter to 10kc. 10kc of audio all on 1 CB channel.
@@KP68videogates Hey, we'd love to have ya. Talking between you and me on 10m would be a rarity as we're too close but sometimes it does happen briefly.
Have you received it already? Make a video on it im curious about that machine
No I haven't. I don't expect it anytime soon. From what I hear it's one delay after another at Apache Labs. It's been 5 months so far. Oh well, at least I'm in no hurry. I sure will make a video on it soon as it comes in and I'm looking forward to it. Thank you for stopping by sir.
Very nice setup.
Thank you!
BEAUTIFUL... 💯👍
thanks..... figured there was somewhere to re set the parameters for latency / delay.
Yes sir. Yet another thing great about Thetis is that if something isn't quite right for you or if something is seemingly awry, there is a high probability that there is a setting that can be changed or adjusted.
Thanks for this cure.... Are you suggesting that all Thetis users set that delay? Was this phenomenon always present OR something new??
Hello sir. I noticed that only occasionally and I also noticed it when my AGC gain slider was set high (at or below the band noise floor) where I would be receiving a high amount of white noise while trying to talk to a distant station whos signal was mixed in with the noise floor. I didn't put 2 and 2 together until this weekend when it was bothering the crap out of me lol. Not all Thetis users may experience this because of the many ways receive audio can be routed. As far as if it was always present or not, I cannot be sure. There could be a setting in Thetis to mute the audio faster on key up but since the RF delay worked for me, I did not investigate the matter any further.
Thks for solution, 73 Ronald PH7R
Hello Ronald. There are probably other ways to fix that but for me this works great. Thank you sir for stopping by.
Nice vedio. I am also having hermes lite2 ,nice little radio with thetis sdr software.what are the plugin s used on cakewalk. 73 vu2dp
Thank you sir. In this profile I used a noise gate, Sonitus 6 band parametric EQ's, a couple of Cakewalk mastering plugins, and some compression. I tossed it all together rather quickly for my friend so he could have a starting point and to get on the air right away. And yes, the Heremes lite 2 is and Thetis is amazing!
KP68videogates, Your videos always make me happy, so I subscribed!
That puts a smile on my face and thank you so kindly! 🙂
Impressive 👍
Thanks 👍
Pretty cool!
Yes sir it is! Thank you for stopping by.
Just an FYI brother and I used to build our own amps, we found that having them long like that is not the best due to the combining lengths so we started making them like a suitcase where it would hinge. We also started using hybrid combiners and they were linear with full bias. Have an 8 or 16 pill on each side. The amp would mount on its side instead of being flat. Fits perfectly behind the seat of the truck and easy to reach connectors and switches. We only made a few as they were just our own and some were prototypes.
That's a neat idea. Same here with just my own. I built everything from a 1 pill up to this 16 pill and experimented with different biasing schemes. And BTW, I just checked out your You Tube channel. Very cool👍. I subscribed
Nice, your new back ground with the color mix is pleasant to look at. I had a ton of trouble trying to update to the newest version of thetis for the HL2. As a last resort I reset windows 11 and got it to install. Take a look at the OL SDR when you have time... looks like it would be competition for the Apache Labs.
Thanks bud. The skin isn't quite finished yet, but not bad so far. Glad you got the update to work. I have a lot of patience with many things but when it comes to computers not doing what they should, I tend to loose my frigging mind lol. Thanks for the suggestion on the OL SDR. I'll check it out.
All that hard work paid off lol. Thank you!
It sure did! Sounding fantastic.
What are you using for an SDR software ? Does it do any RTL USB SDR dongle ? Generic or is it tied to specific manufacturers ? I am looking for a good SDR software to use with generic USB SDRs and be able to record on signal and also do DMR decoding and if it can do Digital P25 phase 2 decoding that would be awesome I have used SDR Trunk software with my dual SDR USB box designed specifically for use on phase 2 digital P25 700 networks Any help is welcome Download page links or the name of the software to get would be great Thanks KC2OVX
The software is called Thetis and it needs to be used in conjunction with a ham radio transceiver such as Apache Labs SDRs or the Hermes lite 2. The Apache Labs radios are very expensive but the Hermes lite 2 is very inexpensive. As far as receive only SDRs go, I have used the RSP2 and the free software I used with it was called SDR console. The RSP2 is discontinued but they still have similar models. Concerning all of the digital capabilities you mentioned, I do not know since I never gravitated towards that aspect of radio. Here are some of the links: apache-labs.com/ www.makerfabs.com/hermes-lite-2.html www.sdrplay.com/ www.sdr-radio.com/console
@@KP68videogates thank you
It took me a long time to get Frank Sinatra.
I've always liked Sinatra but the older I get the more I like him.