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[TenTec] Summary: no SPOT function on Pegasus

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Subject: [TenTec] Summary: no SPOT function on Pegasus
From: SteveBaron@starlinx.com (Steve Baron)
Date: Thu, 23 Sep 1999 18:25:16 +0100
Good to know that they use a single slider to adjust both tones and keep
them identical.  That's super.

Yes, familiar with the way some rigs run the keying line thru part of the
VOX circuit to take advantage of the delay there.


-----Original Message-----
From: Terry Gaiser <w6ru@lightspeed.net>
To: Steve Baron <SteveBaron@starlinx.com>; Kenneth Hopper
<n9vv@mail.hamsnet.net>; tentec@contesting.com <tentec@contesting.com>
To: <tentec@contesting.com>
Date: September 23, 1999 7:05 PM
Subject: Re: [TenTec] Summary: no SPOT function on Pegasus


>
>Quoting from the Pegasus Manual (I know I should never have looked or
spoke)
>;
>
>"SIDETONE (HZ): This slider control determines both the audio pitch of the
>CW sidetone and the carrier transmit offset in CW mode. The default value
is
>700 Hz. The offset can be set anywhere between 400 and 990 Hz."
>
>Also in answer to next question... Every other rig I have owned that I can
>think of (maybe TenTec the exception) when the vox is NOT on, the radio
will
>not TX but you can hear the sidetone.
>
>Terry W6RU
>
>----- Original Message -----
>From: Steve Baron <SteveBaron@starlinx.com>
>To: Terry Gaiser <w6ru@lightspeed.net>; Kenneth Hopper
><n9vv@mail.hamsnet.net>; <tentec@contesting.com>
>Sent: Thursday, September 23, 1999 9:32 AM
>Subject: Re: [TenTec] Summary: no SPOT function on Pegasus
>
>
>> COnfused me.
>>
>> Isn't the sidetone frequency simply the pitch of the sidetone and not the
>> pitch of the beat note that you listen to ?
>>
>> What am I missing ?
>>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: Terry Gaiser <w6ru@lightspeed.net>
>> To: Kenneth Hopper <n9vv@mail.hamsnet.net>; tentec@contesting.com
>> <tentec@contesting.com>
To: <tentec@contesting.com>
>> Date: September 23, 1999 6:04 PM
>> Subject: Re: [TenTec] Summary: no SPOT function on Pegasus
>>
>>
>> >
>> >Well guys I just found a error ...... I just confirmed that changing the
>> >sidetone pitch DOES NOT change the TX frequency ... in fact the TX
>> frequency
>> >is zero beat with the displayed frequency ..... NO offset.  What gives?
>> >Terry W6RU
>> >
>> >
>> >----- Original Message -----
>> >From: Kenneth Hopper <n9vv@mail.hamsnet.net>
>> >To: <tentec@contesting.com>
>> >Sent: Thursday, September 23, 1999 10:42 AM
>> >Subject: [TenTec] Summary: no SPOT function on Pegasus
>> >
>> >
>> >>
>> >> SUMMARY: There is no "SPOT" or Zero Beat function in the new Pegasus.
>> >> W6RU has it right - you can zero beat and then tune up/down your
>offset.
>> >> The CW menu pick gives various offset options from 400hz to 900hz.
>> >>
>> >> I would surely like the new DSP hardware to zero beat for me or to
>> >> at least give me a sidetone to match to. One of the K2 guys is
building
>> >> a zero beat indicator with a PLL that is peaked for the offset freq.
>> >> Maybe that is the solution(?).
>> >>
>> >> TenTec also responds that there is no variable QSK. You get full QSK
>> >> and no selectable delay or variable break-in.
>> >>
>> >> Many thanks to all who responded.
>> >>
>> >> de Ken N9VV
>> >>
>> >>
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