[Elecraft] K3 auto spot function

[Brendan Minish]

But auto spot can ONLY work on signals inside the passband to it cant
help in this situation in any case.
Presumably you are using a very narrow filter because you have nearby
strong signals
I don't see how it can help in this siutaton 
 

On Thu, 2010-02-25 at 00:53 +0000, The Smiths wrote:
> I DISSAGREE with you completely.  When you use a 100/50Hz Narrow
> Bandwidth setting you NEED to have the other station Zero Beated or
> they fall out of the bandwidth area, or become hard to find with the
> Shift control.
> 
> I don't know about you, but I've set my pitch control to a freq. that
> I enjoy hearing, or is best for my hearing.  If I could QUICKLY and
> without work just tap a button and Zero Beat the person to the
> selected freq. that I know suites my hearing, I don't see this as an
> unnecessary feature. The spot button is used for EXACTALLY the same
> reason, just with Transmit now.. Why not allow it to do the same
> helpful thing with receive???
> 
> Again, as I've said before, Don't turn it on if you don't find use for
> it.  Yes, RIT works too, but just as the other person was saying in
> his original post, HE IS TONE DETH and can't tune in the signals to
> his pitch freq... that's why he uses the SPOT feature.  This would
> allow him to have the same simple control with the RIT as well.  
> For those of you that will argue that we have the CWT "goal post"
> indicator, I say this, I've found many times where it either doesn't
> work well, or it indicates a Zero beat when you are pretty far off.
> 
> Again, this is an OPTION that can be used to HELP people.  It doesn't
> offer ANY negative operations to your radio.  Why people fight things
> so hard is just wondrous to me.
>  
> > Subject: Re: [Elecraft] K3 auto spot function
> > From: ei6iz.brendan at gmail.com
> > To: notforchat at hotmail.com
> > CC: elecraft at mailman.qth.net
> > Date: Wed, 24 Feb 2010 22:56:19 +0000
> > 
> > Surely this is an unneeded feature?
> > Isn't the point of SPOT to ensure that you are transmitting on the
> same
> > frequency as the other station.
> > Nothing is gained by exactly tuning the station to match your
> side-tone
> > pitch once rit is engaged.
> > If some guy comes back to you a bit off frequency you can just
> adjust
> > the RIT until the pitch is to your liking. If it's outside the
> filter
> > bandwidth you may not hear him and auto spot can't work it's magic
> > anyway 
> > 
> > just my thoughts on this 
> > 
> > On Wed, 2010-02-24 at 20:00 +0000, The Smiths wrote:
> > > The Auto Spot feature is indeed GREAT! But wouldn't it be EVEN
> BETTER
> > > if you could turn on the RIT, then AUTO spot someone with the RIT
> > > ONLY.
> > > 
> > > 
> > > That way once you sent a CQ, and got an answer, you could VERY
> EASILY
> > > just turn on the RIT and hit SPOT.. It wouldn't move your
> Transmitting
> > > Freq, and you would be perfectly Zero Beat on the person sending
> to
> > > you, without having changed your Transmit freq like it does now.
> > > Seems to me that would be a VERY EASY thing to change. Of course
> for
> > > those that think this is the worst idea ever, they could simply
> leave
> > > this feature off (default) in their CONFIG: SPOT options menu. 
> > > Wayne, don't you think this would be Helpful? I would love to see
> it
> > > added for people like myself that send more CQ's than we answer
> > > them...
> > 
> > -- 
> > 73
> > Brendan EI6IZ 
> > 
> 
> 
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Brendan EI6IZ