[Elecraft] Zero beating

Sun Jan 20 18:26:48 2002

Also, being on freq makes the filters useful; Else, the signal as well =
as the noise falls outside the skirts.

As to how to use the Spot tone; I found it difficult, and even posted to =
this group to run CWGet or Spectrogram because they are so easy adn =
spotting is so hard to do (in my youth, I built a little led gizmo to =
SHOW me the way). Well, if you zero-beat 10 times while listening to the =
Spot tone AND watching the Spectrogram display, you'll figure it out. It =
becomes easy. It's been hard for me for [let's just say over 20 years] =
and it's been easy for several days. After a few minutes practice, you =
can leave the laptop at home and hit the Appalachian trail.

Dan / WG4S

or is this the thread only asking why it's CALLED zero beating, not the =
thread where the op can't make it work?

-----Original Message-----
From: [email protected]
[mailto:[email protected]]On Behalf Of D.R. Weiss KIORP
Sent: Saturday, January 19, 2002 9:42 PM
To: Douglas Westover; [email protected]
Subject: Re: [Elecraft] Zero beating

My reply was in the context of CW traffic ops -- the closer to NCS, the =
better.

At 01:14 PM 1/19/02 -0800, Douglas Westover wrote:
>I guess I'm going against the flow here but I see no
>great virtue or necessity in zero beating a CW signal.
>In fact, it is often desireable to be offset a 100 Hz or
>so to make your signal stand out against the din of a
>pile up  My approach is to just tune for maximum signal
>and let it go at that.
>
>Doug
>W6JD

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