Tom,

When you compare the 2 sidebands on a CW signal, are you first zero-beating 
by matching the incoming signal to the pitch of your sidetone? I tried this 
tonight with the K3 and as long as I'm zero-beat, the pitch is the same on 
either sideband. If I'm off, it varies which makes sense since you're 
switching from one side of center to the other but if you're not zero-beat 
you'll be in different spots relative to center. I hope that makes sense to 
you because I can barely wrap this aging brain around it. Good luck. Lou 
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----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Tom Behler" <[log in to unmask]>
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Sent: Sunday, March 09, 2014 9:48 AM
Subject: How To Zero Beat when in CW ModeWith TS590


> Hi,all.
>
>
>
> This quiry is in response to Danny's recently-posted article on zero 
> beating
> when in CW mode.
>
>
>
> Perhaps my ignorance is showing here, but I always thought modern
> transceivers like the TS590 automatically zero-beat your frequency with 
> that
> of the other station, so long as your RIT and XIT were turned off.
>
>
>
> I just checked my TS590, and found that the tone frequency of stations I
> listened to varied slightly when switching from CW to CW reverse.  I could
> manually get the tone frequencies to match, but the match disappeared as
> soon as I changed frequencies.
>
>
>
> Is there anything I can do to my 590 to be sure I'm always zero beating 
> the
> other station, without having to go through the manual adjustment process
> all the time?
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>
>
> I know we could get really anal about this, but I do think the article 
> sent
> by Danny does have a good point about the importance of getting as close 
> to
> the other station's frequency as possible, in order to preserve band 
> width.
>
>
>
> Tom Behler: KB8TYJ
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>