Bill,
If the MP is like the D, I turn the IF shift knob to about 3 o'clock to
put the 1000 Hz tones in the center of the passband. This is with
the radio in PKT/LSB mode.
I found that the AFC didn't work very well. If a signal was off freq,
the AFC seemed to wander blindly without centering on the signal.
Another problem I noticed was if AFC was on, while I was
transmitting, it wandered and never came back to the signal when
back in rcve. I tended to use RIT for fine tuning.
I would love to see a Digipan-like (waterfall and click on the signal)
display in Writelog for PSK. Wayne, add it to the request list!
73 Barry
On 8 Jan 01, Bill wrote:
>
> I worked a few PSK contacts and I would have worked a lot more but for a
> problem I had.
> Tuning was so difficult and I was obviously doing something wrong.
> Using a soundcard and Yaesu FT1000MP.
> I could see all sorts of blips on the tuning window, but only when I was
> way off frequency. As I would approach the operating frequency the blips
> would diminish until I could no longer see anything.
> From there I had to just tune until print appeared.
> If I used anything but the 2.4K filters the blips disappeared.
> If I tried to use sharper filters the blips diminished and disappeared.
>
> Only the STRONGEST stations would have blips that I was able to tune to.
>
> The frequency was set to 1000 and it didn't matter if I used AFC or Net.
> I know that AFC is for cqing and NET is for S&P according to the manual.
>
> I might ad that I DO NOT have a problem using the tuning window with
> either RTTY or CW.
>
>
>
>
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> "The whole is the sum of its parts, plus one or more bugs
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>
> Bill H. in Chicagoland
> w9ol@billnjudy.com FireBrick@telocity.com w9ol@telocity.com
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