Would I be correct in saying that the Receiver Equalization settings are primarily for SSB vs CW?
If so what are good settings to have?
Mark Griffin, KB3Z

Mark,

I'm running UPDATE 7 w/o the Firmware update (longer story). I can switch GUI to PC look and the Equalizer settings transfer both directions. Not sure what is different on yours. I just set mine for best sound on SSB and leave it for CW. I do use APF for CW at times and the DSE.

CLRspkr --- I've run the bHi unit and a West Mountain noise reduction systems. Those devices helped a bit when I ran an IC-7700, but failed on the MB1. It is my understanding and experience that those audio noise DSP do not work well on CW.
Good luck in CQ WW!

Greg

Greg:

If you get a chance give these 781 settings a try I run this 4-8K tx bandwidth

A receive EQ in CW mode won’t do very much for you. CW is a very narrow tone, nearly a single frequency. An EQ is a series of frequency adjustments across a wide band of frequencies. The only use for CW mode that I can tell may be to adjust for the sound quality of the overall band hiss if you are listening in wide mode hunting for a signal.

Once you have zeroed a signal to work, if you just drag your filters in, all the surrounding hiss and noise will go away, leaving you with the single tone that you are listening to.

If your preferred offset is say 630 Hz, you could conceivably set your offset to one of the matching fixed EQ frequencies and use it as a peaking filter in some regards by boosting it so it would emphasize an incoming signal as you zero it. That’s about the only thing I can think of to apply the RX EQ for CW use.

If for some reason you haven’t realized the filtering can be dragged to custom widths yet, it’s simply stunning.