Jim Bennett wrote: > Just my two cents worth on the zero beat issue. My station is one of the > little guns / squirt guns. I operated in the weekend's contest with a
I'm not a little gun, but you are absolutely correct. The thing to do is answer about 50 Hz above or below zero beat. I have been doing this for years. Just enough to allow the running station to distinguish the callers, but within a 200 Hz filter bandwidth (remember that means +/- 100 Hz. "Just off zero beat". It isn't easy to get this right. You have to accurately zero beat your receiver, but select XIT = +/- 50. My FT1000 have a "CW tune" light for zero beating. I don't know what people with other rigs do. The worst case is where you have a guy sending at 10 WPM with a straight key who is way off frequency. Obviously, not an experienced contest operator, he is quite capable of being way off frequency. Or maybe he's not off frequency, just isn't good at CW. Rick N6RK _______________________________________________ UR RST IS ... ... ..9 QSB QSB - hw? BK
