But auto spot can ONLY work on signals inside the passband to it cant help in this situation in any case. Presumably you are using a very narrow filter because you have nearby strong signals I don't see how it can help in this siutaton
On Thu, 2010-02-25 at 00:53 +0000, The Smiths wrote: > I DISSAGREE with you completely. When you use a 100/50Hz Narrow > Bandwidth setting you NEED to have the other station Zero Beated or > they fall out of the bandwidth area, or become hard to find with the > Shift control. > > I don't know about you, but I've set my pitch control to a freq. that > I enjoy hearing, or is best for my hearing. If I could QUICKLY and > without work just tap a button and Zero Beat the person to the > selected freq. that I know suites my hearing, I don't see this as an > unnecessary feature. The spot button is used for EXACTALLY the same > reason, just with Transmit now.. Why not allow it to do the same > helpful thing with receive??? > > Again, as I've said before, Don't turn it on if you don't find use for > it. Yes, RIT works too, but just as the other person was saying in > his original post, HE IS TONE DETH and can't tune in the signals to > his pitch freq... that's why he uses the SPOT feature. This would > allow him to have the same simple control with the RIT as well. > For those of you that will argue that we have the CWT "goal post" > indicator, I say this, I've found many times where it either doesn't > work well, or it indicates a Zero beat when you are pretty far off. > > Again, this is an OPTION that can be used to HELP people. It doesn't > offer ANY negative operations to your radio. Why people fight things > so hard is just wondrous to me. > > > Subject: Re: [Elecraft] K3 auto spot function > > From: [email protected] > > To: [email protected] > > CC: [email protected] > > Date: Wed, 24 Feb 2010 22:56:19 +0000 > > > > Surely this is an unneeded feature? > > Isn't the point of SPOT to ensure that you are transmitting on the > same > > frequency as the other station. > > Nothing is gained by exactly tuning the station to match your > side-tone > > pitch once rit is engaged. > > If some guy comes back to you a bit off frequency you can just > adjust > > the RIT until the pitch is to your liking. If it's outside the > filter > > bandwidth you may not hear him and auto spot can't work it's magic > > anyway > > > > just my thoughts on this > > > > On Wed, 2010-02-24 at 20:00 +0000, The Smiths wrote: > > > The Auto Spot feature is indeed GREAT! But wouldn't it be EVEN > BETTER > > > if you could turn on the RIT, then AUTO spot someone with the RIT > > > ONLY. > > > > > > > > > That way once you sent a CQ, and got an answer, you could VERY > EASILY > > > just turn on the RIT and hit SPOT.. It wouldn't move your > Transmitting > > > Freq, and you would be perfectly Zero Beat on the person sending > to > > > you, without having changed your Transmit freq like it does now. > > > Seems to me that would be a VERY EASY thing to change. Of course > for > > > those that think this is the worst idea ever, they could simply > leave > > > this feature off (default) in their CONFIG: SPOT options menu. > > > Wayne, don't you think this would be Helpful? I would love to see > it > > > added for people like myself that send more CQ's than we answer > > > them... > > > > -- > > 73 > > Brendan EI6IZ > > > > > ______________________________________________________________________ > Hotmail: Trusted email with Microsoft’s powerful SPAM protection. Sign > up now. -- 73 Brendan EI6IZ ______________________________________________________________ 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
