It is possible that I misread Andy's suggestion, but what you wrote below should be in agreement with what I wrote. My position is that the frequency should be the actual frequency and not the dial frequency.
73, Rick, KV9U Danny Douglas wrote: >"Very basic math of course, but unless >everyone has identical center frequencies, quite necessary." > >Not at all! It doesnt matter if you set your rig at whatever freq (take >3581.5 your example) and the audio you have is at 1.500 on the waterfall. >The signal we are talking about is the one on 3583. If you spot 3.583, and >the rest of us see it, and click on it our rigs will qsy to whatever >frequency will give us that same exact spot on our waterfall. I. E, since >my offset is 1000, the correct waterfall position (sweet spot of my sound >card) will show as 3583 exactly 1000 cy from the edge of the waterfall- and >my rig has QSYd to its correct positon for that to happen (3.582). > >Your Rig VFO readout 3.5815 - plus waterfall 1.500 equals 3.583 >My Rig VFO readout is 3.582 - plus waterfall 1.000 still equals 3583 > >Each and every rig out there does the same thing, but with different >numbers, if the offsets are not the same as ours. > >The rig freq, plus the offset freq is still going to equal 3.583 - which >should be the spotted freq. > >This is why every one should use, not the rigs BFO, but the actual Rig + >Offset when we are spotting stations. > >No manual addition/subtraction is necessary. If we have done our tuning >correctly, and the signal is set exactly on that "sweet spot" (the offset >position) in the waterfall window, the signal should be smack-on and the >software immediately copying the station. It is always disconserting to see >someone who has spotted another station on : say 14069, or 14070, or 14.071, >because 9 chances in 10, that person has simply set his rig on that freq, >and is ignoring the waterfall audio frequency readout. (Unless of course the >spotted station IS actually 1 KC above that freq) Some software doesnt even >have a freq readout on the waterfall, but just 0 to 1000 or 2 or 3000, but >that should not matter, since the RF plus AF(offset) is known. Some >software may not spot using the additive freqs, but I have yet to use one >that didnt. > >I was quite confused about all this at first and also spotted people >incorrectly with just the rigs VFO freq. until I figured out what my >software was doing, and where people were actually reading the signals on >the waterfalls. > > >Danny Douglas N7DC >ex WN5QMX ET2US WA5UKR ET3USA >SV0WPP VS6DD N7DC/YV5 G5CTB all >DX 2-6 years each >. >QSL LOTW-buro- direct >As courtesty I upload to eQSL but if you > use that - also pls upload to LOTW > or hard card. > >moderator [EMAIL PROTECTED] > >
