Joe,

One thing that I'm puzzled about is why it is that most of the posters are
complaining about absolute frequency display and logging, when the requirements
for DXCC awards and contest awards are awarded by band, not frequency.  In LOTW
even the time only has to be within 30 minutes to be verified.

It's wonderful to be able to see exactly what frequency you are on and I for one
love it, but some of the best radios I've ever owned had to be calibrated every
25Kc to be accurate and even then resolution of 1 cycle or ten cycles was
unheard of unless you were in an intercept station on some island.

I wonder how we ever found each other to talk to back then?

73,

Tom Childers
Radio Amateur N5GE
Licensed since 1976
QCWA Life Member 35102
ARRL Life Member
Retired Professional
C# Software developer
http://www.n5ge.net

On Fri, 25 Feb 2011 13:56:02 -0500, "Joe Subich, W4TV" <li...@subich.com> wrote:

>The K3 (along with Kenwood and recent Yaesu rigs) report the current
>VFO frequency and RIT in the IF command.  It also reports each VFO
>(FA, FB), RIT (RO) and XIT (XO) on demand.  A well written logging
>program will be able to log the correct frequency with that data.
>
>Relying on "display" data would require the logging software to play
>games to read the display during both transmit and receive.  In some
>cases - with some transceivers - polling during transmit can result
>in problems.  It is better to report the "pieces" on demand and allow
>the logging software to use them as needed.
>
>73,
>
>    ... Joe, W4TV
>

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