Remember the OMNI C produced the freq difference between the received signal
and your spot tone and we just zero beat the two.
----- Original Message -----
From: "Mark Erbaugh" <mark@microenh.com>
To: <glassrus@houston.rr.com>; "Discussion of Ten-Tec Equipment"
<tentec@contesting.com>
Sent: Thursday, March 24, 2005 16:20
Subject: Re: [TenTec] Humor and Questions
> Paul,
>
> > On a final note. I just ordered my Orion. I have been pre-reading the
> manual. Are people using and happy with the Panoramic Stereo feature for
> zero beating the cw signal when the apparent volume is equal in both ears?
> The reason I ask is that I have a significant difference in hearing loss
> between both ears. Would it be worthwile for TT to make some sort ob
> balance/ equalization control in a future firmware upgrade. Does anyone
have
> any experience with this problem? I know MFJ makes a device that can do
this
> externally and has had very good reviews, including in QST in the past.
>
> My understanding of the purpose of the Panoramic Stereo feature is more to
> allow one's brain to lock on to and decode a CW signal in the presence of
> others. I had never considered it as a tuning aid. While I'm just getting
> into CW, I haven't found PS to be all that useful. I've been trying to
use
> the spot tone, but while I am getting better, it still takes me a long
time
> to find the zero beat (and by then someone else has answered the CQ).
What
> I have found to be most useful (although I do consider it cheating) is to
> watch the waterfall display on a PSK31 (or similar) program. I'm not
> concerned with the computer decoding the CW as I want to do that in my
head,
> but it is pretty easy to see the signal I'm chasing. I set up a waterfall
> marker at the CW offset (sidetone) frequency and just tune till the
desired
> signal is on the marker.
>
> Mark
>
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