The KD8CEC firmware provides a lot of customisation features through uBITx Manager software. Many user of Ian’s firmware are not aware of all the built-in features of his firmware. This is one such instance!
JJ1EPE raised a concern that his display in CW mode was “off frequency”. Well, it was from his perspective, but then the display was all the time showing the TX frequency not the offset frequency where the station he was listening to.
CW offsets create headaches in how you represent the frequency on a display. In SSB the frequency you see on the display is the frequency of the suppressed carrier on receive and the same on transmit. If you tune to the carrier frequency of a received station you won’t hear anything. To get a sidetone we have to tune off the transmit frequency by a few hundred hertz. Most people have worked out how to set the offset on the uBITx.
The standard that Ian KD8CEC has applied is to always show the TX frequency by default (except where RIT or SPLIT mode is selected).
However, if you want to change the approach, do the following in uBITX Manager:
– Enable Adjust CW Frequency
– Shift Display Frequency on CWL, CWU Mode
If you select this function, the LCD will show the frequency at which the radio is being transmitted (the offset you prefer is added or subtracted to the actual RX frequency reflecting the CW-L or CW-U mode selected). This may be just the thing you were looking for!
