Re: [Elecraft] K3 Sidetone feature request
Michael, Your suggestion would make a good keyswitch macro. Except I think there are no commands available to increment/decrement PITCH and SHIFT. 73, Drew AF2Z On Sun, 12 Aug 2012 12:50:37 -0700, you wrote: Drew, although I don't see a way for you to accomplish what you're asking, being able to move the pitch Freq. while still monitoring the signal. I can see a way for Dale to do what he is trying to accomplish. Dale, have you considered setting your pitch to say 500hz (for example), and then sliding your IF shift off freq. center by perhaps a few Hz (50 or so) and then centering your DX station in the middle of that modified IF center. This would change the sound of his tone to 450Hz for example (or 550Hz depending on which way you move the IF Shift). At the same time, this would keep him right in the center of your IF Width filter. Yet Your pitch for transmit would still remain at 500 Hz. This would give you a nice difference between your TX and receive Tones. In order to TX on his Zero beat freq. you may would have to do a SPLIT operation and then TX on the original freq where he is zero beat without the offset. Here's an example below: DX Zero beat = 14.050.000 Pitch = 500Hz IF Shift = +50Hz (.55 on the Shift display) VFO A Read out = 14.050.050 (DX now sounds 50HZ higher than your Pitch Freq but still remains ZERO Beat) TX Split Freq = 14.050.000 Hope this works out for you. Best 73, Michael N6MQL While trying to work D64K the other night on 20m CW with the filters tightened down to about 100Hz around D64K (to filter out the typical tuner-uppers, 'up'-cops, and stations calling on or nearly on frequency) I wished that there was a way to offset the sidetone frequency just a bit so that it wasn't the same as the filter center frequency. This issue is that when operating fast QSK where the DX station is tightly centered in the filter bandpass, my own sidetone gets in the way of being able to hear the DX station since the frequency is the same. If the sidetone could be offset 50 to 100 Hz above or below the filter center frequency, this masking would no longer occur. Any chance that this capability already exists and I just haven't discovered it yet? 73, Dale WA8SRA __ Elecraft mailing list Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm Post: mailto:Elecraft@mailman.qth.net This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html
[Elecraft] K3 Sidetone feature request
Drew, although I don't see a way for you to accomplish what you're asking, being able to move the pitch Freq. while still monitoring the signal. I can see a way for Dale to do what he is trying to accomplish. Dale, have you considered setting your pitch to say 500hz (for example), and then sliding your IF shift off freq. center by perhaps a few Hz (50 or so) and then centering your DX station in the middle of that modified IF center. This would change the sound of his tone to 450Hz for example (or 550Hz depending on which way you move the IF Shift). At the same time, this would keep him right in the center of your IF Width filter. Yet Your pitch for transmit would still remain at 500 Hz. This would give you a nice difference between your TX and receive Tones. In order to TX on his Zero beat freq. you may would have to do a SPLIT operation and then TX on the original freq where he is zero beat without the offset. Here's an example below: DX Zero beat = 14.050.000 Pitch = 500Hz IF Shift = +50Hz (.55 on the Shift display) VFO A Read out = 14.050.050 (DX now sounds 50HZ higher than your Pitch Freq but still remains ZERO Beat) TX Split Freq = 14.050.000 Hope this works out for you. Best 73, Michael N6MQL While trying to work D64K the other night on 20m CW with the filters tightened down to about 100Hz around D64K (to filter out the typical tuner-uppers, 'up'-cops, and stations calling on or nearly on frequency) I wished that there was a way to offset the sidetone frequency just a bit so that it wasn't the same as the filter center frequency. This issue is that when operating fast QSK where the DX station is tightly centered in the filter bandpass, my own sidetone gets in the way of being able to hear the DX station since the frequency is the same. If the sidetone could be offset 50 to 100 Hz above or below the filter center frequency, this masking would no longer occur. Any chance that this capability already exists and I just haven't discovered it yet? 73, Dale WA8SRA -- __ Elecraft mailing list Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm Post: mailto:Elecraft@mailman.qth.net This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html
Re: [Elecraft] K3 Sidetone feature request
Hello Michael, Good suggestion. I hadn't thought of that because I never use the filter shift function since it is disabled when QRQ is engaged. But since QRQ is disabled anyway for split operation, the shift should work fine. I'll give it a shot! Thanks! 73, Dale WA8SRA On 8/12/2012 3:50 PM, N6MQL wrote: Drew, although I don't see a way for you to accomplish what you're asking, being able to move the pitch Freq. while still monitoring the signal. I can see a way for Dale to do what he is trying to accomplish. Dale, have you considered setting your pitch to say 500hz (for example), and then sliding your IF shift off freq. center by perhaps a few Hz (50 or so) and then centering your DX station in the middle of that modified IF center. This would change the sound of his tone to 450Hz for example (or 550Hz depending on which way you move the IF Shift). At the same time, this would keep him right in the center of your IF Width filter. Yet Your pitch for transmit would still remain at 500 Hz. This would give you a nice difference between your TX and receive Tones. In order to TX on his Zero beat freq. you may would have to do a SPLIT operation and then TX on the original freq where he is zero beat without the offset. Here's an example below: DX Zero beat = 14.050.000 Pitch = 500Hz IF Shift = +50Hz (.55 on the Shift display) VFO A Read out = 14.050.050 (DX now sounds 50HZ higher than your Pitch Freq but still remains ZERO Beat) TX Split Freq = 14.050.000 Hope this works out for you. Best 73, Michael N6MQL While trying to work D64K the other night on 20m CW with the filters tightened down to about 100Hz around D64K (to filter out the typical tuner-uppers, 'up'-cops, and stations calling on or nearly on frequency) I wished that there was a way to offset the sidetone frequency just a bit so that it wasn't the same as the filter center frequency. This issue is that when operating fast QSK where the DX station is tightly centered in the filter bandpass, my own sidetone gets in the way of being able to hear the DX station since the frequency is the same. If the sidetone could be offset 50 to 100 Hz above or below the filter center frequency, this masking would no longer occur. Any chance that this capability already exists and I just haven't discovered it yet? 73, Dale WA8SRA __ Elecraft mailing list Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm Post: mailto:Elecraft@mailman.qth.net This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html
[Elecraft] K3 Sidetone feature request
While trying to work D64K the other night on 20m CW with the filters tightened down to about 100Hz around D64K (to filter out the typical tuner-uppers, 'up'-cops, and stations calling on or nearly on frequency) I wished that there was a way to offset the sidetone frequency just a bit so that it wasn't the same as the filter center frequency. This issue is that when operating fast QSK where the DX station is tightly centered in the filter bandpass, my own sidetone gets in the way of being able to hear the DX station since the frequency is the same. If the sidetone could be offset 50 to 100 Hz above or below the filter center frequency, this masking would no longer occur. Any chance that this capability already exists and I just haven't discovered it yet? 73, Dale WA8SRA __ Elecraft mailing list Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm Post: mailto:Elecraft@mailman.qth.net This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html
Re: [Elecraft] K3 Sidetone feature request
FWIW, I would also like that feature. Would also like being able to adjust the pitch of a received signal for optimal copy without moving it in the passband. (You can do this indirectly with PITCH, except you can't listen to the actual signal while you are adjusting it; only the sidetone. Even if you turn MON to zero, there are still no signals audible while PITCH is engaged.) 73, Drew AF2Z On Sat, 11 Aug 2012 10:41:57 -0400, Dale wrote: While trying to work D64K the other night on 20m CW with the filters tightened down to about 100Hz around D64K (to filter out the typical tuner-uppers, 'up'-cops, and stations calling on or nearly on frequency) I wished that there was a way to offset the sidetone frequency just a bit so that it wasn't the same as the filter center frequency. This issue is that when operating fast QSK where the DX station is tightly centered in the filter bandpass, my own sidetone gets in the way of being able to hear the DX station since the frequency is the same. If the sidetone could be offset 50 to 100 Hz above or below the filter center frequency, this masking would no longer occur. Any chance that this capability already exists and I just haven't discovered it yet? 73, Dale WA8SRA __ Elecraft mailing list Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm Post: mailto:Elecraft@mailman.qth.net This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html
