MP3 On-Air SSB Station Recordings

Hi-fi, Mid-fi, Low-Fi SSB ESSB MP3 Off-Air Hi-Fi Audio Montage

Purpose
The purpose of this page is to demonstrate various station audio techniques in several SSB transmit passband widths, while providing a common and flat 6 kHz receiver standard for everyone! All stations represented below reflect what can be done with Single Side Band from minimum processing to complex, from simple audio rack setups to more elaborate. Plenty of variety here! There are many more stations producing fine audio than those listed below, but these are stations that I have had receiver access to, that sound better than the typical audio associated with SSB.

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Listener Suggestions
It is highly recommend that you use good, flat response headphones plugged directly into your sound card output jack for the best fidelity. Some computer speaker systems will not have the sufficient fidelity to accurately reproduce many of the samples provided.

Recording Technique
All recordings were created using Cool Edit 2000 in a flat 6 kHz receiver bandwidth. The original .wav recordings were recorded mono at 16 bit, 48 or 44.1 kHz sampling, edited and normalized to 95%, then converted to standard MP3 format using a 6:1 compression ratio, 128 kbps at a sampling rate of 44.1 kHz.

Recording Criteria for the List
My recording criteria for standard SSB recordings was a reasonably well balanced, well processed sound of less than 3kHz of audio bandwidth. My criteria for ESSB recordings was an SSB transmit audio frequency response of at least 3 kHz or greater where higher fidelity is supported.

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2K90J3E or Less	3K00J3E ~ 3K90J3E	4K00J3E ~ 4K90J3E	5K00J3E ~ 6K00J3E
< 3k Bandwidth (Standard SSB) Processed	3k ~ 3.9k Bandwidth (ESSB Narrow) Lo-fi	4k ~ 4.9k Bandwidth (ESSB Medium) Mid-fi	5k ~ 6k Bandwidth (ESSB Wide) Hi-fi
IK1AUS - Luca	EA3OT - Michael	F4ECJ - Eric	AA8VL - Chris
IK7IMK - Nick	G4EKL - Tony	G0TIY - John	K2WS - Alan
IK7UFR - Michael	GI0AIJ - Ivor	K6VRG - Don	K3XE - Mike
K4APO - Walter	K2BLU - Zak	KF9VH - Mike	KA0KA - Tyler
K4DUG - Doug	K2VI - Tony	KG2NC - Ruben	KB9YSJ - Jeff
K4QKY - Don	K4AMI - Chuck	KQ2U - Ossie	N9TNP - Karen
K6JRF - Jim	K5HOT - David	KZ4K - Haans	NA1A - Duke
K8NY - Bob	K7ER - Elliot	N2NQM - Paul	NU9N - John
KA7GKN - Marty	K7PE - Bob	VE7KHZ - Paul	VA3FM - Steve
KJ7E - Damon	K9EID - Bob	W2FLA - Sherman	VE6CQ - Rick
KK6BS - JoJo	K9TRQ - George	W2RF - Ed	W3HD - Tony
KK7TV - Randy	KC4PE - Billy	W5GI - John	W3OZ - Larry
WW4CQ - Robert	KD4WMW - Danny	W6WM - Lee	W4CO - Charles
N8RWS - Jeff	KE3EG - Joe		W5JAY - Jay
W2IHY - Julius	KJ5NS - Mark		W9AD - Dave
	KP2NP - Neville		WB9DNZ - Greg
	KV2AA - Joe		WB9JCF - Rich
	N0NR - Glenn		WT1H - Skip
	N1WLC - Michael		ZF1DG - Durl
	N2APJ - Jack
	N2KI - Tony
	N2LG - Rob
	N2MGA - Jay
	N2VU - Donald
	N2ZP - Don
	N3GX - Alex
	N4FZ - John
	N8QW - Sonny
	VE6CFD - Hugh
	W0WD - Joe
	W1FYI - Dick
	W2JVM - Harold
	W2ONV - Bill
	W2OT - Marty
	W4JRP - Joe
	W5UDX - Greg
	W6OK - Tom
	W7NEW - Tom
	WA1OXT - Gary
	WA2NHA - Howard
	WA4IRE - Marc
	WV4R - Murphy
	WY3D - Frank

Click here to download "Master_Montage_v1C_mp3.ZIP" file of all stations - File size: 14.995 MB
Click here to download "Master_Montage_v1C_wma.ZIP" file of all stations - File size: 15.009 MB
Original "Master_v1B.wav" attributes: 16bit, mono, 48kHz sampling, 91.32MB, 16 minutes 14 seconds
"Master_Montage_v1C_mp3.zip" info: WAV to MP3 Conversion: 128Kbps, mono, 44.1kHz sampling, 6:1 compression = 14.995 MB
"Master_Montage_v1C_wma.zip" info: WAV to WMA Conversion: 128Kbps, mono, 44.1kHz sampling, 6:1 compression = 15.009 MB
The MP3 list, recordings and master files will be updated quarterly. MP3 files last updated June 20, 2004

John M. Anning - NU9N
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