Mine too, had a friend tell me the rig was designed before the warc band
usb/lsb was decided and they guessed wrong. Only a minor aggravation.
Mike Michon
AB5XP
-----Original Message-----
From: Jim Reid <kh7m@hsa-kauai.net>
To: tentec@contesting.com <tentec@contesting.com>
To: <tentec@contesting.com>
Date: Thursday, April 26, 2001 4:48 PM
Subject: [TenTec] Coorsair II "Quirk"
>
>Hi,
>
>Listened to several SSB signals today; 15 M seems best of the
>upper bands mid-day. Worked JA1CG with very strong signals.
>
>Then went to 17 M to check prop there. Discovered that to
>demodulate SSB signals, I had to switch to SSB-R! Would
>not become readable as on 20 and 15 with the mode switch
>at SSB-N (normal). Per the Corsair II, Mod. 561 manual,
>the SSB-N should be correct for 17 M, as the rig evidently
>is supposed to know that above 14M, all the SSB signals
>are on USB.
>
>Is my Corsair different, somehow? Why does it need to be set
>for SSB-R for 17, and SSB-N for the other bands above 20?
>Evidently this rig believes that on 17M, LSB is the correct mode,
>at least that is what works.
>
>73, Jim, KH7M
>
>
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