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enlarge photo I have always loved the movie The Wizard of OZ and because my last name sounds like "OZ man", I have been called OZ or the Wizard for most of my life as the movie came out just before I was born. This page is has nothing to do with the movie at all other than the backgrounds and theme of the page is in the OZ vane. Over the many years I have been working in Amateur radio audio. I have used several brands of rigs and many types and brands of audio boxes. I have had rigs that would receive and transmit over 6 kHz and rigs that were more conservative. At the present time I am running Icom rigs that are limited to less than a total bandpass of 3 kHz. Icom rigs will not allow you to run any form of ESSB. Just SSB. But with a little work you can make them sound wonderful and to the majority of hams they will sound as good if not better than those guys using ESSB all flavors. This page is NOT about ESSB, eSSB, or VooDoo. there are other web pages devoted to those subject. If you want to participate in this types of audio, you will need a rig that is capable of producing a total bandpass of at least something over what an Icom and most other standard rigs will do. NU9N.com has a fine definition of what the EXTENDED modes are. I DO however, support and encourage the use of some external devices to smooth out and improve the audio of standard rigs. You will see many hints and suggestions on how to achieve these goals. I encourage the use of audio devices such as better microphones, noise gates and limiters, and EQing devices to make your audio as pleasing to others as possible. Without using excessive band width.
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I also suggest that, unless all you do is rag chew, you may have more than one setup so that if you like to work DX as I do or contest, you will have a flexible setup so that you can easily switch between a great conversational station to a good DX or contesting audio station. I do not believe there is any universal audio that is optimum in both extremes. I don't intend to be insulting or over critical to anyone or group of hams working in audio today or in the past, but I do see many problems and may hams have asked for my advice. This page is for the ham who does not want to get so involved in audio that he has thousands of dollars in equipment and modifies his equipment to squeeze that last bit of audio quality out of his equipment that only those few know what they are looking for. Please review the menu items on the left side of this page. By looking at the topics, you should be able to click and go to the subject you are interested in or are looking for more information on. There really are other topics on this page other than audio related matter. You can now go to the Welcome page and select those other sections you may want to explorer. On the Welcome page there is a reference to a blog. The blog entries are about subject of interest to me. Please take a few minutes to read the entries and give me some feedback. Please be honest and you are welcome to leave the comments anonymously.
Wizzard Logo by DONALD J SNODGRASS K4QKY Yes I know Wizzard in the logo is spelled incorrectly. It was done that way to emphasize the Wizzzzz part.
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