Narrow and Wide Band

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On my radio the other day. I was listening to one of the local repeaters. But some how I turned it to Narrow band and the signal improved and it got louder. Can someone explain why this happens? Remember I am fairly new. Dont be too harsh.

[kidphc]

On my radio the other day. I was listening to one of the local repeaters. But some how I turned it to Narrow band and the signal improved and it got louder. Can someone explain why this happens? Remember I am fairly new. Dont be too harsh.

Maybe the repeater is set to narrow?

Narrow is more effiecient in power, and bandwidth utilization. Radio operators generally don't like it because when compared to wide band it loses in audio fidelity.

You should hear narrow digital. Sounds like everyone has a stuffy nose and is in a tank of water. Get p25 trunked encrypted, aggravating, due to all the compression. If your intrested in how bad it is ask a FD or PD to let you listen to dispatch for a second.

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As @kidphc indicated, matching the bandwidth of the repeater is always going to give you better results than a mismatch.

[dosw]

Consider the following graphic:

In this graphic you'll see a thin red line. That's just where my SDR is tuned to listen. And then a wider red vertical band. That's how wide in terms of frequency bandwidth I have my SDR software set to listen.

Within that faint red band is a jiggly band that grows wider and narrower. The bottom is the beginning of a transmission, and the top is the end of the transmission, in time.

If I have my listening radio set to narrowband, that's similar to the faint red band being narrower. If that were the case, you would see some of the transmitted signal falling outside of the band in which I'm listening. So we're losing information. However, that also means that more of the faint red band is filled by radio waves (the jiggly band), so it will sound louder, though more distorted.