[Icom] CW Zero Beat

Fri, 25 Oct 2002 19:46:01 -0400

I have an Icom 746 - if I tune the other station so that the pitch matches exactly to 
my side tone, am I more or less zero beat with him?

I have assumed that that is how it works!

On 25 Oct 2002 at 11:52, Jan Reimers wrote:

> 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
> 
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]]
> > Sent: Thursday, October 24, 2002 2:42 PM To: [email protected]
> > Subject: [Icom] CW Zero Beat
> > 
> > 
> > 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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