New to Me P3 Benefit

[Rick Tavan N6XI]

The P3 has enabled a new S&P technique for me - I can tune in a station that
I haven't even heard yet! By lining up the passband on traces that appear
down the waterfall, I'm ready to copy when the station resumes transmitting.


/Rick

On Wed, Mar 2, 2011 at 4:12 AM, Jim Sheldon <[hidden email]> wrote:

>
>
> The P3 really helped here too as I saw the spike when he first started
> calling CQ around 1812.4KHz.
>


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Rick Tavan N6XI
Truckee, CA
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[Robby.VY2SS]

I have also found that my S&P productivity has improved dramatically using the P3 both on CW and RTTY. It's a big advantage when tuning up or down the band to be able to see what is happening  ahead of you.  

On RTTY I will usually line up the marker on the next signal and jump to it with the tap=QSY on the P3. I use the 5 kz span without the waterfall. With a little practice, no manual fine tuning is necessary. I seldom have to touch the main VFO on the K3 while I S&P in that mode. I wish I could do that with a mouse (hint). On CW the P3 together with the second RX allows me to find and ID stations before I get to them.

It has always cost me points in contests because I am lazy and prefer to RUN but now I'm getting much better rates from S&P and that encourages me to do it more.

When I'm looking for a RUN frequency, if there is one, the P3 helps me find it.

My eyes are on the P3 almost all the time when I'm operating.

73,

-Robby
VY2SS

[Shel Radin KF0UR]

I, too, found my RTTY S&P productivity increased with the P3.   In the recent NAQP RTTY contest with crowded band condx, I set it up for 2 khz band spread, which spread out the signals and made tuning and seeing the "next one" pretty easy.   I was pleasantly surprised to find out how much easier it was to use than tuning with just MMTTY.