[Boatanchors] A short Vent

[Rob Atkinson]

I like how my Johnson 122 drifts for 20 or 30 seconds when I come back
to someone on CW.

This is one of those things for which there is a happy medium.  What's
a few kc between friends.  But 5 kc or more?  Probably not good for
spectrum use.  It can get to be a nuisance when you have a big group
and everyone is here and there.  I have a homebrew ceramic filter in
my 75A-3 that is kind of peaky so I retune a lot and worse, if I am
using a sync. detector it has to re-lock all the time.  But I don't
get all that worked up about it.  I do try to zero beat the other guy
but sometimes forget.

I bet some of this has to do with the modern rigs and their TCXOs and
dial resolution down to 1 cps and an assumption everyone is running
something similar.


Rob
K5UJ