That's what I have always thought too, Bob.

I'm just a bit puzzled why CW and CW reverse don't exactly match when
listening to an incoming CW signal with the TS590.

Once again, I want to stress that both my XIT and RIT are in the off
position.

Tom Behler: KB8TYJ


-----Original Message-----
From: For blind ham radio operators [mailto:[log in to unmask]]
On Behalf Of Bob, K8LR
Sent: Sunday, March 09, 2014 10:13 AM
To: [log in to unmask]
Subject: Re: How To Zero Beat when in CW ModeWith TS590

Tom,

I'm not a cw operator, but I always thought if you match the cw signals tome
frequency to the frequency of your keying sidetone, that would zero beat the
transmitter.

Bob, K8LR, [log in to unmask]

----- Original Message -----
From: "Tom Behler" <[log in to unmask]>
To: <[log in to unmask]>
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?



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