[TenTec] Sidetone + RX Audio

[Dr. Gerald N. Johnson]

On Sat, 2006-12-09 at 02:32 -0500, Eric Rosenberg wrote:
> Two months after it came back from TT, I finally put the shack back 
> together. The Orion came back with v2.xx firmware. No time to change it 
> to anything else.
> 
> I'm trying to match the pitch of a centered CW signal in the Writelog CW 
> decoder with my sidetone. I noticed that when I changed the sidetone 
> pitch, the RX audio shifted, too.  Is this normal (I was in LCW mode)?  
> Is there a cure?
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> Eric W3DQ
> Washington. DC

That's a feature, not a fault, so it can't be cured. Lets you audibly
match the sidetone pitch with the received signal to be zero beat when
you respond to save on band usage (and in a thickly piled up contest
like CW SS or FD) and so get answers more often.

-- 
73, Jerry, K0CQ,
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