[Icom] CW Zero Beat

Jan Reimers [email protected]
Fri, 25 Oct 2002 11:52:46 -0700


Greg,

	I do rough zero beating using my perceived memory of the side tone
pitch.  A more accurate way is to switch to side bad and tune the incoming
signal down to ~0Hz and then back to CW mode.  The most accurate way is to
compare the tones on CW and CW-R modes, when you get them identical (very
easy to hear) you can tune the incoming station to within ~5Hz!!  The last
two methods are independent of your side tone setting.

73
VA7JNR

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> From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]]
> Sent: Thursday, October 24, 2002 2:42 PM
> To: [email protected]
> Subject: [Icom] CW Zero Beat
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> 
> I have a question regarding zero beating another cw station 
> with my 706MARKIIG. With a previous rig all I did was tune 
> until the pitch of the cw station matched my side tone and I 
> was right on the other station's frequency. But the manual 
> for my 706 does not give any information on zero beating 
> another cw signal. Also the side tone is adjustable and this 
> is a great feature. So to the cw ops, how do you do it?
> 
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