You don't normally listen to a CW signal at zero beat, so many receivers apply a BFO offset to make the CW tone audible at a comfortable frequency. This is usually more like 800 Hz than 4 kHz, though, so you could still have a calibration error somewhere.
-- john, KE5FX > -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Behalf Of Pierre-Francois (f5bqp_pfm) > Sent: Thursday, September 25, 2008 1:10 PM > To: [email protected] > Subject: [time-nuts] Naive question on WWW stations > > > Hi, > > I listened today the WWW station and I've found it on 9.996 Mhz > instead of 10.000Mhz and my receiver is fairly well calibrated > and I was within the narrow CW filter. > I thought the WWW was precisely on 10Mhz. > Do you have some explaination? > How many WWW station worldwilde are there and what are their > precise frequencies? > > Many thanks, > pf, F5BQP > > > > _______________________________________________ > time-nuts mailing list -- [email protected] > To unsubscribe, go to > https://www.febo.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/time-nuts > and follow the instructions there. > _______________________________________________ time-nuts mailing list -- [email protected] To unsubscribe, go to https://www.febo.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/time-nuts and follow the instructions there.
