[RTTY] Rude contesters

[Gary AL9A]

Bill,

Wouldn't the S&P station with his AFC on also affect those running AFSK, not 
just FSK?

73,
Gary AL9A


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Bill, W6WRT" <dezrat1242 at yahoo.com>
To: "RTTY Reflector" <rtty at contesting.com>
Sent: October 03, 2012 7:03 PM
Subject: Re: [RTTY] Rude contesters


> ORIGINAL MESSAGE:
> On Wed, 3 Oct 2012 19:43:39 -0700, WU6W wrote:
>
>>
>>You guys just answered a question I have had -- how do some guys, not too
>>many but one or two, answer my CQ's W-A-Y off frequency.. Like in this day
>>and age of digital !! Yea - 40 years ago it was easy to do !
>>I run FSK, so they must be running AFSK or on the wrong sideband or both 
>>???
>>They are so far off the only reason I look for them is the timing of the 
>>off
>>freq signal - I figure it's got to be a reply and sure enough, there they
>>are. One day I suspect I'll run out of RIT !
>>
>>Rick - WU6W
>
> REPLY:
> One of the major causes of off-frequency stations is misuse of AFC. A 
> common
> scenario is this:  The S&P station is running FSK but has AFC on. As he 
> tunes
> across the band and gets near the CQ station, his AFC "reaches out" and 
> locks in
> the CQ station. Since his tuning indicator now shows proper tuning, he 
> stops
> turning the VFO knob. The problem is, his TX freq is NOT locked in and is 
> still
> lagging behind.
>
> Another contributing factor when using MMTTY is failing to reset the tones 
> to
> default when turning AFC off. If you watch MMTTY's tone frequency with AFC 
> on
> but no signal being received, you will see it wander around several Hz. If 
> you
> simply turn off AFC and the tones have wandered off the default, that's 
> where
> they stay. The point is, when turning AFC off you MUST ALSO click the 
> "HAM"
> button to reset the tones. If you are running N1MM logger, there are check 
> boxes
> in the DI setup that can do this for you automatically.
>
> 73, Bill W6WRT
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