[TenTec] Pan-Adaptor vs. Using BandMap with Ten-Tec Transceivers

[Jim Brown]

On 11/5/2014 1:29 AM, Rick - DJ0IP / NJ0IP wrote:
> I AM STILL TRYING TO UNDERSTAND HOW THE BANDSCOPE (or Pan-Adaptor) WILL HELP
> "ME" in "my way" of working DX contests.
> I know it helps for other things, but how will it improve my contest score?

Let me count the ways. First, it finds signals on "empty" bands very 
quickly. Great for 6M and 10M, for example. Second, it finds a clear 
frequency where I can call CQ. Third, it finds signals that I can hear 
and work, not that someone else can hear but I cannot. Fourth, it finds 
signals on their actual frequency, rather than a wrong frequency that 
someone posted wrong.

It's also great in a DX pileup -- let's me find clear spots in the 
pileup, see how wide it is, see the frequency of the guy who just worked 
him, etc.

And it's great for tracking down noise -- I can see the drifting noise 
bumps of a switching power supply, see other broadband noise stuff.

And, if what you have is an Elecraft P3, you've got a 
measurement-quality spectrum analyzer with relative calibration of 
amplitude in dB and frequency in Hz or kHz, so you can measure the 
occupied bandwidth of a transmitter.

73, Jim K9YC