You seem to have the problem of thinking that some beat frequency that you want
to hear is "zero beat" when you have RIT on. "Zero Beat" means that you and
the other station are on the same frequency, which clearly you are not if you
are parking your transmitter and using RIT to get him tuned to your liking.
You are not asking for automatic zero beat, you are asking for automatic tuning
to your desired "beat note". Why turning the RIT knob to approximately center
the other station in your receive passband with a comfortable beat note has to
be automated is beyond me.
Real zero beating used to be an operator skill; you tuned the other guy in on
your receiver, turned on a low level carrier in your transmitter and adjusted
its VFO until the two tones matched, i.e, there was no (zero) beat note between
them. Assuming of course, that you actually had a VFO to tune and you weren't
crystal controlled.
--- On Wed, 2/24/10, The Smiths <notforc...@hotmail.com> wrote:
> Why are you trying to come up with a harder way of doing
> the same thing? I know what RIT is, I know how to use
> it. Just let me hit the stupid SPOT button and get
> things Zero Beated... Why do I have to even envolve my Split
> mode, or Sub receiver in this SIMPLE operation!
>
>
>
> > Date: Wed, 24 Feb 2010 13:18:42 -1000
> > From: k...@flex.com
> > CC: elecraft@mailman.qth.net
> > Subject: Re: [Elecraft] K3 auto spot function
> >
> > You can do that now by using split. Hit split and use
> the
> > CWT to tune to freq, your transmit freq stays put,
> only the
> > receiver is tuned.
> > Merv KH7C
> > > The Auto Spot feature is indeed GREAT! But
> wouldn't it be EVEN BETTER if you could turn on the RIT,
> then AUTO spot someone with the RIT ONLY.
> > >
> > >
> > > That way once you sent a CQ, and got an answer,
> you could VERY EASILY just turn on the RIT and hit SPOT.. It
> wouldn't move your Transmitting Freq, and you would be
> perfectly Zero Beat on the person sending to you, without
> having changed your Transmit freq like it does now.
> > > Seems to me that would be a VERY EASY thing to
> change. Of course for those that think this is the worst
> idea ever, they could simply leave this feature off
> (default) in their CONFIG: SPOT options menu.
> > > Wayne, don't you think this would be Helpful? I
> would love to see it added for people like myself that send
> more CQ's than we answer them...
>
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