[Elecraft] Why is my K3 off frequency?

[Fred Jensen]

True ... the NCS is, by definition, the net frequency.  One can zero 
beat CW and AM to within a Hz or so and with today's radios, you will 
even stay there.  What's to "zero beat" in a SSB signal?

73,

Fred ["Skip"] K6DGW
Sparks NV DM09dn
Washoe County

On 3/24/2021 8:04 AM, KENT TRIMBLE wrote:
> Probably a good time to remind newcomers . . .
>
> Calibration aside, stations checking into nets should always zero-beat 
> the Net Control Station regardless of where he is on the dial and 
> regardless of the net's published frequency.
>
> Last week the NCS of the 75-meter Interstate Sideband Net parked 
> himself several kilohertz below the published frequency in order to 
> escape QRM.  As the net control station that was his prerogative and 
> his responsibility.  Most participants followed suit, but several 
> stations insisted on transmitting on the published frequency and then 
> complained that the NCS was off-frequency.  In truth, the NCS is never 
> off-frequency.  He IS the net frequency.  Accurately zero-beating the 
> NCS is even more critical on CW nets where conditions often mandate 
> narrow filters.
>
> 73,
>
> Kent  K9ZTV
>
>
>
>
>
>