Thanks Don. I will check tmw, it's getting late here now. Maybe I have
got the wrong sideband, that would certainly explain a lot.
Yes, that is what I was doing. Just toggling RIT button to check when he
was txing and then to find the station he was working.
BTW, thanks. You gave me my own toroid winding demo at Dayton on the
Saturday, as you had already done the official one on the Friday. It helped!
73 Chris G3SJJ zzzzz
Don Wilhelm wrote:
Chris,
The BFO should take care of itself - BUT if you were using FL2 thru FL4 to
receive and the FL1 (transmmit) BFO was set to the sideband opposite from the
filter you were using.
A quick check of the BFO frequencies for all filters should reveal a sideband
swap readily.
I am not clear on all parts of your operation detailed - you said "switching RIT on
& off" which is the part that is not clear to me - you must turn on RIT and tune
(with the RIT knob) to the frequency you intend to transmit on - then activate XIT, and go
back to the intended receive frequency by turning RIT off. If that is your procedure it is
correct, but I did not understand all the steps in the procedure you outlined.
73,
Don W3FPR
-----Original Message-----
Scenario 1 - Hear VQ9JC on 20m and want say hello/goodbye before he
leaves there. He is working split, so switching RIT on & off, I find his
rx freq and tap XIT. He completes a QSO so I call. No QSO. This happens
several times including a policeman who says G3 Up. I sense something is
wrong and stop calling. Jim has confirmed he heard me on his TX freq at
a good strength but didn't want encourage a co-channel QSO. Fair enough
but I was convinced I was transmitting split.
Scenario 2 - Was a bit apprehensive after Scenario 1 but decided to call
NO2R in ARRL 160m contest. I know I can works States on 160. Had 19
Stateside Qs in the last hour of RSGB 160m Contest recently. Nothing,
even pushing my amp hard. Most unusual. This was co-channel, no split.
Once is one thing but twice makes me feel there is a problem. RIT/XIT
looks OK, so I think I need to do zero beat and BFO checks before I go
much further.
Chris G3SJJ
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