If your ears don't work Pete, how about you use your eyes. There's a great free program that works with your computers sound card input. It's called Spectrogram and it's FREE. You can download it here: http://w5big.com/Spectrogram517.zip with this program you can set up a marker for your "zero beat" PITCH freq. and you can visually see all the signals within your pass band area. When you have decided which is the one that you want to tune in, all you have to do is move your VFO until that particular signal is sitting right on top of the Marker line (pitch freq marker). The great thing about it is it works Post filters, notch, width and shift because it's using the audio out of your rig. This means that you can not only see the signals, but you will be able to adjust your manual notch freq. and see how it effects the signals around the marker. You'll also be able to narrow or widen your width filter then shift around so that you can visually watch how you are cutting off other signals to the side of your Pitch marker freq. It's a great too to have, and from what you've said about not being able to tune someone in, I think that this would be a perfect tool for you. One last benefit for you to have this program would be for setting up your REF CAL alignment in the K3 too. This program will get you within 1 Hz (or less) of Zero Beat. (Config: Ref Cal) Of course there's always the CWT marker that you could move around until you've lined the K3 in Zero beat, and if you put the right signal in the display and hit SPOT (while in CWT mode) it will automatically set that for you as well (+/-2 Hz). The combination of looking at the Spectrogram, cleaning out the unwanted signals, then hitting auto spot on the K3 is your best bet for fast automation. Hope this helps solve your issue.
> Date: Mon, 16 Aug 2010 07:49:16 -0400 > From: n...@contesting.com > To: elecraft@mailman.qth.net > Subject: [Elecraft] [K3] Auto Shift/Width - Possible? > > I am one of those semi-tone-deaf people -- which means that my > zero-beating is unsure, and when I need to narrow my CW bandpass, I have > trouble quickly and accurately manipulating the Shift and Width controls > to narrow the bandpass and center it on the desired signal. This really > came home to me in this weekend's WAE CW contest. > > Given that the audio is being digitally manipulated anyway, is there any > possibility of implementing an automatic process for picking out one of > 2 or 3 signals and centering the narrower bandpass characteristic on > it? I realize that the processor couldn't tell which signal was the > desired one, so you would have to have the option of using a button push > or a CAT command to step quickly through the signals in the original > bandpass to select the correct one. > > -- > 73, Pete N4ZR > > The World Contest Station Database, updated daily at www.conteststations.com > The Reverse Beacon Network at http://reversebeacon.net, blog at > reversebeacon.blogspot.com, > spots at telnet.reversebeacon.net, port 7000 > > ______________________________________________________________ > Elecraft mailing list > Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft > Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm > Post: mailto:Elecraft@mailman.qth.net > > This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net > Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html ______________________________________________________________ Elecraft mailing list Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm Post: mailto:Elecraft@mailman.qth.net This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html
