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--- On Fri, 12/3/10, Pete Smith <[email protected]> wrote: > From: Pete Smith <[email protected]> > Subject: [Elecraft] Determining zero-beat > To: "Elecraft List" <[email protected]> > Date: Friday, December 3, 2010, 4:09 AM > I want to use my K3 to calibrate the > QS1R receiver used here as part of > the Reverse Beacon Network. For technical reasons, > it's desirable to > calibrate the QS1R at as high a frequency as possible, so I > wanted to do > so in the 6-meter band. I thought that if I knew how > accurate the K3's > frequency display was at 10 MHz WWV, I'd know whether I > needed to > compensate for any systematic error when comparing the two > up on 6M. > > Here's where the problem comes in. AM mode isn't > usable for finding > zero-beat, of course. On CW, it appears that the > zero-beat frequency is > displayed as 10 MHz minus the "pitch" frequency (which can > only be > adjusted down to 300 Hz). I'd like to know the > frequency accuracy of > the K3 within 20-30 Hz if possible for this exercise. > > How to proceed? > > -- > 73, Pete N4ZR > ______________________________________________________________ Elecraft mailing list Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm Post: mailto:[email protected] This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html
