Chris, The BFO should take care of itself - BUT if you were using FL2 thru FL4 to receive and the FL1 (transmmit) BFO was set to the sideband opposite from the filter you were using.
A quick check of the BFO frequencies for all filters should reveal a sideband swap readily. I am not clear on all parts of your operation detailed - you said "switching RIT on & off" which is the part that is not clear to me - you must turn on RIT and tune (with the RIT knob) to the frequency you intend to transmit on - then activate XIT, and go back to the intended receive frequency by turning RIT off. If that is your procedure it is correct, but I did not understand all the steps in the procedure you outlined. 73, Don W3FPR > -----Original Message----- > > Scenario 1 - Hear VQ9JC on 20m and want say hello/goodbye before he > leaves there. He is working split, so switching RIT on & off, I find his > rx freq and tap XIT. He completes a QSO so I call. No QSO. This happens > several times including a policeman who says G3 Up. I sense something is > wrong and stop calling. Jim has confirmed he heard me on his TX freq at > a good strength but didn't want encourage a co-channel QSO. Fair enough > but I was convinced I was transmitting split. > > Scenario 2 - Was a bit apprehensive after Scenario 1 but decided to call > NO2R in ARRL 160m contest. I know I can works States on 160. Had 19 > Stateside Qs in the last hour of RSGB 160m Contest recently. Nothing, > even pushing my amp hard. Most unusual. This was co-channel, no split. > > Once is one thing but twice makes me feel there is a problem. RIT/XIT > looks OK, so I think I need to do zero beat and BFO checks before I go > much further. > > Chris G3SJJ > -- No virus found in this outgoing message. Checked by AVG Free Edition. Version: 7.5.430 / Virus Database: 268.15.6/567 - Release Date: 12/4/2006 7:18 AM _______________________________________________ Elecraft mailing list Post to: [email protected] You must be a subscriber to post to the list. Subscriber Info (Addr. Change, sub, unsub etc.): http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help: http://mailman.qth.net/subscribers.htm Elecraft web page: http://www.elecraft.com
