I agree with Jim on the use of waterfall for weak signals. When I first got the P3 my main focus was on the top part of the display, the spectrum of signals and I ignored the water fall. One day I discovered a signal in the waterfall that did not even show up on the top spectrum portion. It was a new DXCC entity for me and he picked me up on my first call to him. Now, it is the waterfall where I do my hunting most of the time looking for either QRP or just plain ordinary weak signals.
By the way, I only call CQ if there is nothing else I can find on the band -- I have gone for days without calling CQ. 73, phil, K7PEH On Feb 28, 2014, at 10:19 AM, Jim Brown <[email protected]> wrote: > On 2/28/2014 10:08 AM, Jim Lowman wrote: >> So, for those of you who have this option, could you describe how it has >> assisted you? > > Monitoring and finding stations on "dead" bands (like 6M), finding holes in a > DX pileup where you might have better success, identifying RFI noise sources. > Finding clear spots in a contest to call CQ. > >> In another message, someone mentioned that weak stations outside of the >> passband could be missed, which is a good point. > > That is NOT a problem with the P3 -- it gets its feed from the first IF and > can be adjusted to look at any bandwidth from 2 kHz to 200 kHz. When you turn > on averaging in the Fixed Tune mode set it for the highest number of > averages, it's very easy to see weak signals in the waterfall. > > 73, Jim K9YC > > > > > ______________________________________________________________ > 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 ______________________________________________________________ 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
