I second Mikes advice/observation here. As you receive and decode the other station may be slightly off the same frequency and the AFC takes care of this.
Additionally I have noted that if the noise breaks the squelch then you can move a bit. Andy LY/ES2DY --- In digitalradio@yahoogroups.com, mikea <mi...@...> wrote: > > On Sun, Jul 12, 2009 at 12:34:19PM -0000, ac0mj wrote: > > Good Morning to the group, > > > > I have a question about the drift in Digital Master 780. I am sending > > out CQs in RTTY this morning on 20m and noticed as on other modes in > > the past that the signal I send drifts to the right slightly over > > time. I started on 14.084.10 and a half hour later I am at 14.084.35. > > I realize this is a minuscule drift, but I was wondering why it is > > happening. > > I'll bet that you have AFC turned on, and that the frequency is drifting > because of AFC. > > -- > Mike Andrews, W5EGO > mi...@... > Tired old sysadmin >
