You do have a problem then. I don't As I don't have a waterfall or sound card and can't click on a thing. Therefore - again - if I say meet me on 14,075 you will be right on with my mark & space tone with 2125 2295. Now if you have what ever you run way off the standard you will have to look for me. Its so easy Ray Charles could see it... And yes I do have the same tones time after time after time. It never changes. I think you see why I *can't* use a waterfall frequency now.
John At 04:13 PM 2/25/2007, you wrote: >But- what is default offset? Not everyone has the same thing for an offset. >It is determined properly, by simply starting on one end of the waterfall >and clicking every 100 cycles, and transmitting and observing your transmit >output. Where the RF output is the highest (from the sound card - which >drives the rig at its highest power) that is your sweet spot on the >soundcard, and where you offset should be set. Every computer sound card I >have used has had a different spot where that happens. My present one >happens to have its highest curve setting at 1 kc, but others have been much >lower, and some much higher. RTTY IS easier to find, but if someone gives >me that stupid 14.070 freq, and I go to it (14069 on the VFO plus 1 KC on my >sound card), very likely there is NO signal on that freq. But, there are >dozens above it, so which one is he when I go there? I have to individually >go to each one, one at a time, and copy till I get a call readout, or in my >case - using WinWarbler I have wideband copy, and go to that window and >search down until a call has indicated where he is. Its just so much easier >to use the correct freq in the first place. I dont care where your VFO is, >or what your offset is, and you shouldnt care where mine are either. If you >spot 14.07380 and I click on it, that is where my program sets my tracer to >copy the signal there, and I have the target copied immediately. If you >tell me 14.071 in the freq column, and then put a note in "+1280" , my CAT >control is still going to set my vfo to 14.071 and then the waterfall tracer >will be up 1kc from that, putting my trace on 14.072 which is still 1.8 KC >off the target- and there will be a dozen signals between my tracer, and the >real station. > >This is the reason we should all use the waterfall freq, not the VFO freq, >and should train new ops right off the bat, so there is no confusion.
