Still enjoying getting to know my "new" Paragon. One thing that is not as
good as the Corsair - netting on CW. How do you do it accurately? The
Corsair has a SPOT switch that does as one would expect - allowing zero
beating with the other station's signal. The Paragon's SPOT switch
doesn't do the same at all - just allows listening on the TX frequency if
split frequency operation is in use. The best that I can do so far with
the Paragon is to use another RX to monitor an external signal (e.g. sig
gen) and the Paragon and adjust the Paragon's side-tone oscillator
frequency so that, if I tune an incoming signal for the same as the
side-tone osc, that'll be near enough. Anybody found a better way?
I know that this problem is common to many HF transceivers. I guess if
you have a really narrow filter you're going to be somewhere near right
but that's not the same as getting zero-beat :-)
Also, how can I adjust the output power for less than 5 Watts for QRP
operation without reducing the maximum output power achievable?
73 de John, G3RHP
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