HI, In a pileup, I ALWAYS move off zero beat, so if I transmit, I don't cover the DX station in the event I transmit on top of him/her. -- Thanks and 73's, For equipment, and software setups and reviews see: www.nk7z.net for MixW support see; http://groups.yahoo.com/neo/groups/mixw/info for Dopplergram information see: http://groups.yahoo.com/neo/groups/dopplergram/info for MM-SSTV see: http://groups.yahoo.com/neo/groups/MM-SSTV/info
On Sun, 2014-10-05 at 08:49 -0300, Mike Harris wrote: > Any particular reason to need to zero beat to 1Hz? I find the auto tune > function works perfectly well. In fact if I'm one of many stations > calling I often offset 40-50Hz so as to be different from the all zero > beat mush. > > Regards, > > Mike VP8NO > > On 05/10/2014 07:55, Arie Kleingeld PA3A wrote: > > Hello Ted, > > > > When I need to be on zero beat within one Hz, I always switch on the > > spot on the K3 and set the received signal to the same volume. > > Once I hear the combination of both increase and decrease slowly, I know > > that I am within a Hz. It's also the way I calibrate the K3 against a > > standard like WWV or the russian station on 9.996 / 14.996 (forgot the > > callsign). > > > > 73 > > Arie PA3A > > > > Ted Edwards W3TB schreef op 5-10-2014 12:44: > >> I have never been convinced of being accurate on zero-beat on my K3. > >> With previous radio units, I would zero-beat by matching the tone of the > >> received station with my own keying side-tone. But it does not seem > >> accurate on the K3. > >> > >> So the question: How would I determine that my offset and side tone > >> would > >> match up so that I am really zero-beated when I think I am. > >> > >> Thanks ahead of time. > ______________________________________________________________ > 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 > Message delivered to [email protected] ______________________________________________________________ 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 Message delivered to [email protected]
