I don't like drifting. Ever since getting interested in Amateur Radio as a kid, frequency accuracy and stability has always been a major concern to me. Am currently using a PTS 040 synth to drive the Viking II. It is zero-beat cal within a cycle or so of WWV and with a TCXO reference it stays put. Can't swish with it but just a couple knob clicks and I am wherever I need to be. The synth cost me about the same as 122s go for on E-Bay.
Bill, KB3DKS in 1 Land -----Original Message----- From: Brett Gazdzinski <[email protected]> To: Discussion of AM Radio in the Amateur Service <[email protected]> Sent: Thu, 2 Apr 2009 5:58 pm Subject: Re: [AMRadio] 7160 tonight: Suggestion I see this all over, and its just poor operating practice. Some guys will be 2 or even 3 KHz low, someone else might be 1 or 2 KHz high, some guys are overmodulating and/or have no restrictions on the high end of the audio, and the qso is 10 KHz wide, which is rude. Not so important on an empty band, but still poor operating practice all around. I know its hard to keep some rigs on frequency, you need to zero beat often. When I had the drake R4C, sometimes I only heard one guy in a qso, the other guy was out of the passband! Brett N2DTS ______________________________________________________________ Our Main Website: http://www.amfone.net AMRadio mailing list Searchable Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/ List Rules (must read!): http://w5ami.net/amradiofaq.html List Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/amradio Post: [email protected] To unsubscribe, send an email to [email protected] with the word unsubscribe in the message body. This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html
