On Tuesday 20 February 2007 10:50, J F wrote: > "RIT - In my entire 33-year ham career I have never > felt the need for RIT (and XIT even less).
I use it all the time - when people call me they're nearly always off my frequency and outside the narrow filters' passbands. Not everyone has an Elecraft rig and some transceivers have no feature to enable zero beating. Using an external receiver and an external crystal controlled oscillator, I adjusted a variable capacitor in my IC-735 to make zero beating an incoming signal correspond to the CW sidetone, as the K2 does. Unlike the K2, it was open-loop, but better than the unadjusted IC-735. When I obtained my G4ICV licencse in 1979, it was, if not now (?), a requirement that the station should be capable of listening to its own transmissions. Having only one transceiver and unable to monitor its output was a licence violation - not that it was ever enforced. I started out on the HF bands using separates: an Eddystone EA12 (that I still have) and a Yaesu FL101 transmitter. I felt more confident of zero beating with those than the K2. Ian, G4ICV, AB2GR, K2 #4962, LP-100 #278 -- _______________________________________________ Elecraft mailing list Post to: Elecraft@mailman.qth.net You must be a subscriber to post to the list. Subscriber Info (Addr. Change, sub, unsub etc.): http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help: http://mailman.qth.net/subscribers.htm Elecraft web page: http://www.elecraft.com
