Dick Kriss aa5vu-fOdFMYwuEsI@public.gmane.org [linuxham]
2014-07-12 11:32:33 UTC
Tom K8WDX
Your assumption is correct if you mean you are setting your VFO-B up 2 to 14084.534 but you will log the contact on your QSO Frequency that is 14082.534.
FYI, I use 1000 Hz as my sweet spot so the difference between the rig freq and the qso freq is always 1000 HZ. If see a spot on the cluster for a station at 14086 working up 2 RTTY, I tune my VFO-A to 14085.000 and start looking for the two traces on the waterfall. I then mouse select the right (green) line that is the RTTY Mark. The copy should then be good but I then click on the QSY button to let fldigi center the audio signal to my defined sweet spot. Once I have the station tuned correct, I then use the rigs A=B button to put both VFOs on the same frequency then tune VFO-B up 2 (or where ever I think the DX station is listing). This sounds more complicated than it is in day to day operation.
One of the big mistake you will hear on the air is from operators that mouse on a signal anywhere on the waterfall and start transmitting without using the QSY button to center the signal the sweet spot. Listen and you will hear weird sounding transmitted signals. Learn to use the QSY button. It is one of the better features of fldigi.
73 Dick AA5VU
Fri Jul 11, 2014 7:42 pm (PDT) . Posted by:k8wdx
Ok rig and green display say 14081.000 and the white with black numbers freq display say 14082.539, so what frequency am I at? I would say I am transmitting/receiving at the 14082.534 spot. So if this is the case and I wanted to work a station on RTTY split, would I then set my sub receiver/transmitter to 14084.534 if the station was saying up 2? just kinda wondering...Thanks Tom K8WDX
Your assumption is correct if you mean you are setting your VFO-B up 2 to 14084.534 but you will log the contact on your QSO Frequency that is 14082.534.
FYI, I use 1000 Hz as my sweet spot so the difference between the rig freq and the qso freq is always 1000 HZ. If see a spot on the cluster for a station at 14086 working up 2 RTTY, I tune my VFO-A to 14085.000 and start looking for the two traces on the waterfall. I then mouse select the right (green) line that is the RTTY Mark. The copy should then be good but I then click on the QSY button to let fldigi center the audio signal to my defined sweet spot. Once I have the station tuned correct, I then use the rigs A=B button to put both VFOs on the same frequency then tune VFO-B up 2 (or where ever I think the DX station is listing). This sounds more complicated than it is in day to day operation.
One of the big mistake you will hear on the air is from operators that mouse on a signal anywhere on the waterfall and start transmitting without using the QSY button to center the signal the sweet spot. Listen and you will hear weird sounding transmitted signals. Learn to use the QSY button. It is one of the better features of fldigi.
73 Dick AA5VU
Fri Jul 11, 2014 7:42 pm (PDT) . Posted by:k8wdx
Ok rig and green display say 14081.000 and the white with black numbers freq display say 14082.539, so what frequency am I at? I would say I am transmitting/receiving at the 14082.534 spot. So if this is the case and I wanted to work a station on RTTY split, would I then set my sub receiver/transmitter to 14084.534 if the station was saying up 2? just kinda wondering...Thanks Tom K8WDX