[TenTec] Sweep on OII

[Carl Moreschi]

Lee,

For split dx work, you may want to consider my program.  I have a DUAL
receive button on the program.  There are several things in the program that
greatly help split dx operation.  If a dx station is not working split and
then suddenly announces up 5, all you do is press the "up" key followed by
the "5" key.  This instantly set VFO B= VFO A + 5 and sets the VFO B for
transmit.  Now, if you are also wearing headphones, you hear the dx station
in both ears.  But if you just click the DUAL button  (or press an F key if
you have this defined on your keyboard), then the main receiver will then be
heard in the left ear and the callers will be heard in the right ear.  You
can then tune VFO B from the program and find the caller.  This really works
well and is much simpler than messing with the Orion audio menus.  Also,
when everyone is calling the dx station, it is very confusing to hear all
this and sometimes hard to hear the dx station.  So during these moments, I
press the DUAL button to turn DUAL receive off.  This way I can concentrate
on just hearing the dx station.  I turn DUAL back on as soon as the dx
station calls someone.  It is very nice to just have one button to toggle
the audio from main on both to main in left and sub in right.

73,

Carl Moreschi N4PY
121 Little Bell Drive
Bell Mountain
Hays, NC 28635
----- Original Message ----- 
From: <Kc9cdt at aol.com>
To: <tentec at contesting.com>
Sent: Sunday, March 12, 2006 9:03 AM
Subject: Re: [TenTec] Sweep on OII


> Yes, my real issue is hunt & pounce, as an example.
> Split DX.
>
> VFO A on DX's RX Freq.
> VFO B to look for the Freq. the folks are calling him on ...up 5-10
> go back & forth with RX Main set to VFO A then B etc to listen to the DX
and
> to listen to who he is talking to.
>
> When I am looking for the exact person calling the DX, I may (usually) see
> him on the sweep.
>
> NOW what I want to do is quickly tune to him! I don't want to do math to
do
> that or guess. If I am quick enough I can tune to him and be ready when he
> signs to call right there on that freq. (TX set to VFO B)
>
> Your mileage may vary but that is what I want the real time sweep for.
>
> Also, let's say you are on 15 and there's a signal up 40, it would be nice
to
> quickly tune to it to get the DX before he goes away in some cases they
just
> don't stay that long. I don't want to try to figure how many KHz up he is,
I
> just want to tune to him.
>
> Oh well, that's my take on it....
> 73,
> Lee, KC9CDT
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