[CW] Sidetone frequency versus transmit frequency

[DANNY DOUGLAS]

What are you talking about???    hehehe   NO - there are people who still( 
after many years) do not understand that, and thus you have signals all over 
the place.  A lot of this may stem from the old days when most (any?) rigs 
did not have the audio "offset" capability.  One way I used to do it was to 
use the LSB mode to copy a cw signal and once it was comfortable there, 
switch over to the cw mode and listen to what I perceived to be the most 
comfortable tone I wanted, and which was still within the passband I was 
hearing (if that makes any sense).  This is one of the nice features about 
the Kenwood TS570s I have.  Just reach up and hit the cw tune (after making 
sure I have already pre-selected an audio selection in the menu).  That pops 
the rig right where it should be.  Thats exactly what the clarifier used to 
do for us on rigs of the past.

Danny Douglas
N7DC
ex WN5QMX ET2US WA5UKR ET3USA
SV0WPP VS6DD N7DC/YV5 G5CTB

All 2 years or more (except Novice)
Pls QSL direct, buro, or LOTW preferred,
I Do not us, but as a courtesy do upload to eQSL for
those who do.

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----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Ken Brown" <ken.d.brown at hawaiiantel.net>
To: "CW Reflector" <cw at mailman.qth.net>
Sent: Monday, June 29, 2009 2:59 AM
Subject: [CW] Sidetone frequency versus transmit frequency


> Hi all,
>
>     I visited the local radio club's field day setup this weekend. I
> sat down at one of the stations they had set up. No one was operating,
> so I thought I'd make a few QSOs. I was having difficulty getting any
> response when I answered CQs. No doubt this was largely due to my
> location, Hawaii. I also suspected that being unfamiliar with the
> transceiver, I may have been transmitting a few hundred Hertz away from
> zero beat with the CQing stations I was calling.
>     The owner of the rig was there so I asked him how does the side
> tone note relate to my actual transmit frequency. He said that my
> transmit frequency was exactly as displayed by the digital readout. I
> said that I was not concerned about the numbers on the display, provided
> I was well within the band limits, but rather was trying to understand
> how to zero beat my transmitted signal with the signal of the other
> station that I was calling. He repeated that whatever the receive
> frequency is, the transmit frequency will be, as long as the clarifier
> was not on. I tried to allude to the possibility that even with the
> narrow filter (which he said was 500 Hz) I could be receiving several
> signals with various audio notes, and the transmitter can not be zero
> beat to all of them. (If this rig had one of those automatic zero
> beating functions, there was no indication that it was turned on, and it
> was never mentioned by the owner.) I asked what the received signal
> audio note had to be in order for the transmitted signal to be on the
> same frequency as the signal I was listening to. He apparently never
> understood what I was asking. I gave up and continued to try to make QSOs.
>     I have had similar conversations with other hams, some who are
> experienced CW operators, and I have had similar failures to reach an
> understanding of the question I am asking. I wonder if any of you can
> suggest how you would ask the question in a way that would be more
> readily understood?
>
> Thanks,
>
> Ken N6KB
>
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