[Icom] Zero Beating CW on Mark IIG
Gary Pearce KN4AQ
[email protected]
Mon, 29 Jul 2002 23:30:53 -0400
Somebody correct me if I'm wrong, but I believe that the "sidetone" pitch
is the same as the offset frequency. So tune the received station to the
same pitch as the sidetone, and you're on the same frequency.
73,
Gary KN4AQ
At 09:52 AM 7/28/2002 -0700, you wrote:
>I am just getting started in CW, so I know next to
>nothing about it. I am struggling to understand the
>concept of zero-beating a station and how it works
>with my 706 MKIIG. The instructions in the operators
>manual say nothing about it, so I don't know if I have
>to do it manually or if the transceiver does it
>automatically. All I know is that the transmit
>frequency is shifted 600Hz from the received
>frequency, and I am not sure how to perform the
>zero-beating properly. Can anyone help me, please?
>
>Thanks!
>Gary
>WA1TJB