Ok...Try setting up a sked with someone on PSK31 on a certain frequency.
Have you ever looked at PSK on 20m? If your filter if opened up to a
wide, 500hz, you may see about 5 signals on your waterfall display. Now
consider that your dial is off by 200hz. You'd never find your sked. Same
deal with Amtor and Pactor scheduling. Those roaming Pactor mailboxes
would never hear you if your dial is more than 50hz off frequency. Sure,
with cw and ssb, dial calibration doesn't matter that much but when you
rely on a dumb computer to do the work, it matters a lot.
-----Original Message-----
From: "Mike Hyder -N4NT-" <N4NT@charter.net>
To: "Steve Ellington" <n4lq@iglou.com>
To: <tentec@contesting.com>
Date: Mon, 30 Sep 2002 23:14:40 -0400
Subject: Re: [TenTec] Omni VI Plus freq. readout
> Where?
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Steve Ellington" <n4lq@iglou.com>
> To: "Mike Hyder -N4NT-" <N4NT@charter.net>
> Sent: Tuesday, October 01, 2002 11:07 PM
> Subject: Re: [TenTec] Omni VI Plus freq. readout
>
>
> Because it's there.
> Steve Ellington N4LQ.
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Mike Hyder -N4NT-" <N4NT@charter.net>
> To: "George, W5YR" <w5yr@att.net>; <n4lq@iglou.com>
> Cc: <tentec@contesting.com>
> Sent: Monday, September 30, 2002 12:06 PM
> Subject: Re: [TenTec] Omni VI Plus freq. readout
>
>
> > Would someone kindly explain to me why I need to know my frequency
> with
> such
> > precision?
> > --------------------------------------
> > This reminds me of the story about the medical student and his
> father.
> All
> > through medical school the boy fondly thought of his father's coming
> home
> > from his blue-collar job and sitting down in front of his hi-fi
> record
> > player and listening to music. The boy vowed that when he got to
> where he
> > could do it, he was going to get his father the finest stereo set
> that
> money
> > could buy.
> >
> > That day came. The boy took his dad on the long awaited shopping
> trip.
> > They compared this stereo with that. They studied specifications and
> > studied specifications and compared specifications.
> >
> > Finally they got the very best set that money could buy.
> >
> > The next time the boy came home to visit, he noticed that his dad
> didn't
> > listen to his music anymore. He asked why. The father's response
> was
> > telling. He said, "You know, I used to listen to the music. Now all
> I
> hear
> > is the wow, rumble, flutter and harmonic distortion."
> >
> > 73, Mike N4NT
> >
> > ----- Original Message -----
> > From: "George, W5YR" <w5yr@att.net>
> > To: <n4lq@iglou.com>
> > Cc: <tentec@contesting.com>
> > Sent: Monday, September 30, 2002 11:53 AM
> > Subject: Re: [TenTec] Omni VI Plus freq. readout
> >
> >
> > Better than what?
> >
> > If I may mention the name, my Icom 756PRO is never more than 5 Hz off
> WWV
> > on a cold start and within 5 minutes is within 2 Hz or less and get
> even
> > closer as it warms up. It can be readily adjusted dead on to WWV, but
> the
> > adjustment is "touchy" so I usually quit fooling with it after I get
> it
> > down to a one Hz error. My calibration procedure provides 0.1 Hz
> > resolution.
> >
> > 73/72, George
> > Fairview, TX 30 mi NE of Dallas in Collin county EM13qe
> > Amateur Radio W5YR - the Yellow Rose of Texas
> > In the 57th year and it just keeps getting better!
> >
> >
> > n4lq@iglou.com wrote:
> > >
> > > > Frankly, I don't find the Kenwood's, Yaesu's or Icom's to be any
> better
> > > > in
> > > > terms of actual frequency vs. displayed frequency.
> > > >
> > >
> > > Amazing!
> >
> >
>
>
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