[1000mp] New MARK-V

Sun, 16 Mar 2003 15:43:15 -0800

Pete, I still remember my experience a few months ago which was the convers=
e of what you describe. I heard a VR2 (Hong Kong) on 160, and I called and =
called simplex (or so I thought)without success. He worked all the other lo=
cals who called him except me, and then went QRT. Shortly afterwards I disc=
overed that I had been transmitting split, with a 10 khz spread, from the l=
ast time I had used to the rig on 160, and didn't notice when I came on tha=
t the rig was still set for split operation. That was the first and last VR=
2 I had ever heard on 160. It was a hard reminder that I have to be careful=
 to check to see whether the rig is set for split operation.

Jim  W1YY

-----Original Message-----
From: Pete Smith [mailto:[email protected]]
Sent: Sunday, March 16, 2003 1:15 PM
To: [email protected]
Subject: Re: [1000mp] New MARK-V

At 12:58 PM 3/16/03 -0800, you wrote:
>Wait until you accidentally turn off the radio with
>the 2nd VFO enabled as the transmitter. Next time you
>turn it on, you won't remember or notice and when you
>change bands with the primary VFO your VSWR will be
>really high... golly, put the antenna analyzer on it,
>it works great... but the rig back on, VSWR is really
>high. Duh.

I suspect that this one, or its converse, is responsible for about half the=
=20
times you hear guys transmitting on the DX's frequency when they mean to be=
=20
split.  Took me a long time to remember to look hard at the red light next 
to the second VFO to be sure I was transmitting on it and not the main=20
one.  And of course these were the times I'd used the 2nd VFO on receive to=
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pick the perfect transmit frequency.

73, Pete N4ZR
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