Linrad calibration. The analog hardware may use filters with poor frequency response. It is a good idea to design analog filters for optimum dynamic range, which means steep skirts but not very flat passband. The calibration procedure adds a digital filter with a frequency response that is the inverse of of your hardware's response. As a result the digital data sent into Linrad for further processing is filtered through a filter with perfectly flat amplitude response and perfectly linear phase response. The calibration procedure has to add one more filter, the desired frequency response, because frequencies that are absent can not be recovered. The desired frequency response must be chosen for the total digital filter to not have extreme gain or Q. Each mode has to be calibrated separately. There may be perfectly valid reasons to use different shapes for the desired frequency response in different modes. Calibration is slow however and you do not actually have to run the calibration procedure for all the modes. You may calibrate in one mode and then copy the file to produce the calibration files for all other modes that you want to share the same calibration. The calibration files are: Mode Frequency response Weak signal CW dsp_wcw_corr Normal CW dsp_cw_corr Meteorscatter CW dsp_hsms_corr SSB dsp_ssb_corr FM dsp_fm_corr AM dsp_am_corr QRSS CW dsp_qrss_corr TX TEST dsp_txtest_corr SOUNDCARD TEST MODE dsp_test_corr ANALOG HARDWARE TUNE dsp_tune_corr If your hardware is set up to run in direct conversion mode with two audio channels for each HF channel, you also have to calibrate for the amplitude and phase balance errors of your hardware. In direct conversion mode you need these files also: Mode Channel balancing data Weak signal CW dsp_wcw_iqcorr Normal CW dsp_cw_iqcorr Meteorscatter CW dsp_hsms_iqcorr SSB dsp_ssb_iqcorr FM dsp_fm_iqcorr AM dsp_am_iqcorr QRSS CW dsp_qrss_iqcorr TX TEST dsp_txtest_iqcorr SOUNDCARD TEST MODE dsp_test_iqcorr ANALOG HARDWARE TUNE dsp_tune_iqcorr TX TEST is always one channel so it needs its own calibration files if your system is set up for two channels. Otherwise you may copy these files from a single calibration file. Rather than making multiple files you can use symbolic links. Note that a calibration change in one mode then will change the calibration in all modes.