[Elecraft] Spot Tone

[Craig Rairdin]

> Maybe I need one of those LED Tuners
> I've been reading about. What am I doing wrong??

Others have made good comments about how to use SPOT. Lately I've been
running my audio into my laptop and running CWGet. It has a nice little
spectrum display where the CW signals show up as sharp peaks on the waveform
display. I tune until the signal I want is right at 600 Hz on the display
then I don't have to try to match the tone.

You can set CWGet up so it will sit looking at one frequency (in my case,
600 Hz) so when I get the peak over the hash mark for 600 Hz is also when it
starts copying the code.

I have a pretty good sense of pitch and some musical talent, but for some
reason I find it easier to put the peak over the 600 mark than to "hear" 600
Hz reliably.

I sure think some kind of graphical display for the K2 would be nice. I'm
not familiar with what all the "fancy" rigs do with their color displays. I
kinda skipped a few generations of equipment when I dropped out of ham radio
in the early 80's then woke up like Rip Van Winkle in 2005 to build a K1 and
K2. But it seems like some kind of graphical display would come in handy for
lots of things.

Maybe the K3...

Craig
NZ0R
K1 #1966
K2/100 #4941