Fred, I agree with your wife: "there's no such thing as an EX-engineer"! I R 1 2!! And my girl friend say's the very same thing.
But being an ex-engineer, I know you really just wanted to get your K3 'spot-on' - EXACTLY spot-on! The 'excuse' of 'cluster spots putting you on frequency' is typical of what we use to substantiate some of the silly things we do with our ham gear. I know you are aware that the accuracy of YOUR radio has nothing to do with you getting you right on a cluster spot frequency, as you and I can not correct for the error in the cluster spotters radio! But it sounds like a fun exercise for us ex-engineers! 73, Tom - W4BQF -----Original Message----- From: elecraft-boun...@mailman.qth.net [mailto:elecraft-boun...@mailman.qth.net] On Behalf Of Fred Jensen Sent: Sunday, December 05, 2010 7:49 PM To: Elecraft Reflector Subject: [Elecraft] K3 Calibration A few days ago, someone posted a several paragraph procedure to calibrate the K3 using the beat between the MON tone and the signal while doing CONFIG:REF CAL. Whoever you were, thanks! I copied the meat of your procedure to Notepad and printed it, and now don't have the email header. It worked, just like you said, and yes, I really could detect the small variations due to propagation, especially on 15.000.000 MHz. I've figured my K3 [642] has been about 25-50 Hz off for quite awhile. Exactitude doesn't really matter for anything I do with my radio, as long as it is close, but being an ex-engineer [OK, wife says "there's no such thing as an EX-engineer"], knowing it bugs me. We'll see now if the cluster spots put me on frequency when I'm running SO Assisted. Generally speaking, I run a constant XIT of 100 Hz in contests where I expect to encounter pileups ... that wasn't the ARRL 160 this weakend :-) That puts the station in my hearing sweet spot, and hopefully puts me somewhere different from the rest of the crowd but still in his passband and "sweet spot." Never heard Kevin on 20m ECN, or anyone else for that matter, so didn't get to check out the "AGC Off Scenario." I checked, my tower and tribander did not fall down. Things are usually pretty strong on 40, we'll see. 73, Fred K6DGW - Northern California Contest Club - CU in the 2011 Cal QSO Party 1-2 Oct 2011 - www.cqp.org ______________________________________________________________ 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
