[Elecraft] Zero Beat

[Scott Ellington]

No, no.  That kind of tracking I can do with the RIT, but on a crowded band there's an excellent chance that there are lots of other loud signals on either side of that little 400 Hz slot I've chosen.  We need a K3 feature that grabs the VFO of a station halfway around the world and zero-beats MY K3.  (Only when he's calling me, of course.)  I didn't say this would be easy.

Maybe W0EB's "zero-beat monkey" is the solution, after all.

73,

Scott  K9MA


On Jan 31, 2011, at 12:59 PM, Geoffrey Mackenzie-Kennedy wrote:

> Some form of Tracking Filter? The challenge would be to teach the filter to ignore stations who are not calling you :-)
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> 73,
> Geoff.
> GM4ESD
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> Scott Ellington wrote on Monday, January 31, 2011 at 18:38Z:
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>> Now that we have such great filters in the K3, we have another problem: Many other operators just can't find the right frequency.  Not only do the stations calling you often miss your passband, those calling adjacent stations DO end up in your passband.  We have our CWT, but what we really need is a feature which gets the OTHER station on frequency.  Now, I understand that this is technically challenging, but that's just the sort of thing the folks at Elecraft are so good at.
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>> Meanwhile, I guess we'll just have to hope that more of those operators buy K3's.
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>> 73,
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>> Scott   K9MA
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Scott Ellington
Madison, Wisconsin
USA