[GreenKeys] Re: ah-haa, found some rtty!

Fri, 13 Jun 2003 19:41:14 -0500

Gil,
Likely a dumb question, but are you using LSB to tune the ham RTTY signals??
Military (and the 10 meg military gear guys use USB, but ham is all LSB.
That could account for your receiving ARRL on .097.   MMTY will probably
tune a "reversed" signal.  Just a thought.
73,
Don, WB5HAK
----- Original Message -----
From: "gil smith" <[email protected]>
To: <[email protected]>
Sent: Friday, June 13, 2003 6:13 PM
Subject: [GreenKeys] Re: ah-haa, found some rtty!


> Hey!  I got an ARRL RTTY broadcast on 14.095!  My first reception of clear
> text, which resulted in a BFG (big f'n grin)!
>
> My freq display actually showed about 14.097;  can they be off that much?
> This is a Kenwood TS-430S, which I presume uses a synthesizer.  Of course
> the reference xtal would be off a bit, not sure how much is typical.  Is
> there a way to run it off of an external reference signal?  Then I could
> use an HP sig gen to keep it exact.
>
> I went to check the other freqs listed on the schedule, but there was
> nothing there.  Then I returned to 14.095, and it was also gone (about 20
> mins after the hour, so maybe the broadcast was done).  Didn't matter, I
> was a happy camper!
>
> Then I found some hams chatting, somewhere around 14.088 or so.  Lots of
> fun to see -- discussion about some hal tus, so maybe they are even using
> iron.
>
> Ahh, made my weekend!  Must be time for a beer.
>
> thanks to all for your help,
>
> gil (radio newbie) smith
>
>
>
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