Chirps?  Mine is more like a slow "whump whump whump", not a chirp. 

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...nr4c. bill


> On Dec 18, 2016, at 7:40 AM, K9ZTV <k9...@socket.net> wrote:
> 
> The R.L. Drake Company referred to the zeroing or beating indicators as 
> "canary chirps,"  the goal being to slow the "chirping" until there was a 
> steady tone indicating you were then dead-on.  I still find that the most 
> descriptive way to tell someone how to identify the pulsing when doing the 
> Reference Calibration against WWV in a K3 (at the highest frequency you can 
> copy them). The trick is to get the right balance in volume between WWV's 
> main carrier tone and the K3's sidetone so you can hear the "chirps." 
> 
> Kent, K9ZTV
> 
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