{"id":49966,"date":"2021-08-13T11:31:24","date_gmt":"2021-08-13T15:31:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/?p=49966"},"modified":"2021-08-13T11:31:24","modified_gmt":"2021-08-13T15:31:24","slug":"c-crane-cc-skywave-ssb-jock-adds-a-correction-addendum-to-his-guest-post-about-ats-tuning","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2021\/08\/c-crane-cc-skywave-ssb-jock-adds-a-correction-addendum-to-his-guest-post-about-ats-tuning\/","title":{"rendered":"C.Crane CC Skywave SSB: Jock adds a correction\/addendum to his guest post about ATS tuning"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Many thanks to SWLing Post contributor, Jock Elliott (KB2GOM), who shares the following guest post:<\/em><\/p>\n

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I made a mistake, but it\u2019s good news for CCrane Skywave SSB owners.<\/h1>\n

Recently, I published a guest post for the SWLing Post<\/em><\/a> in which I wrote enthusiastically about the ATS feature on the CCrane Skywave SSB. Everything I wrote was true, except for one small detail. And that, it turns out, is a nice bonus for Skywave SSB owners.<\/p>\n

We\u2019ll get to that in just a moment, but first, let\u2019s take a look at what the Skywave SSB manual says about memory:<\/p>\n

\u201cMemory Preset Buttons 0-9. Save your favorite stations to memory buttons. To save a station, press and hold any memory button for 2 seconds while the station is playing. To play a saved station, press the same button once quickly. Note: The CC Skywave SSB is a \u2018smart\u2019 radio and will remember current settings when a station is preset into memory. The current settings that will be saved with your stations are: 1. Stereo or Mono selection on FM. 2. Bandwidth selection on AM, Shortwave, or Air Bands. 3. Tone settings.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Further, the manual says this about the Page Button:<\/p>\n

\u201cEach memory page allows you to save 10 additional stations per band. To change to a different page, press the PAGE button once quickly, then press any memory button 0-9 to select the Page you desire.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

So, do the math: there are 10 pages. Each page can store 10 memories. 10 x 10 = 100, right?<\/p>\n

So imagine my surprise when I visited the C.Crane website early this AM, and the first thing that pops up is the Skywave SSB, and, prominently displayed, it says: \u201c400 memories.\u201d<\/p>\n

Whaaaat?!<\/em><\/p>\n

I check; the manual says nothing about 400 memories, no hint that by pressing some secret combination of buttons you can access memories beyond the 100 obvious ones.<\/p>\n

Then it begins to dawn on me: what if each band \u2013 SW, AM, FM, AIR \u2013 has its own bank of 100 memories? That would account for C.Crane\u2019s claim of 400 memories. Hmmm. Further, what if the ATS (Automatic Tuning System) function \u2013 which \u201cprograms all receivable stations in the AM, FM, Air and Shortwave bands to memory buttons\u201d \u2013 automatically stores the frequencies in the appropriate memory bank for that band? That would be pretty neat.<\/p>\n

So I grab the Skywave SSB and run a quick ATS search on the SW band. Sure enough, it stores some SW stations, starting at Page 1, Memory 1, overwriting whatever had been stored there. Then I select the AIR band and access memories, starting at Page 1, Memory 1. There are only AIR frequencies stored there. I select the FM band and access the memories; nothing but FM stations stored there. Same thing with AM. Clearly, there are separate memory banks for each band.<\/p>\n

So here\u2019s the good news: the Skywave SSB does, indeed, have 400 memories, a 100-memory bank for each band: SW, AM, FM, AIR. Further, when you do an ATS search, the frequency “hits” are stored, starting at page 1 for that band. Therefore, if you do an ATS search on the SW band, the hits are stored in the memories for SW, and the memories that are stored for, say, AIR, are not overwritten. (And that is where I got it wrong.)<\/p>\n

So, if you are traveling, you can do a search on local AM stations, local FM stations, SW stations, and local AIR stations, each will be stored in its own memory bank, starting at page 1, memory 1, for that band. Pretty neat.<\/p>\n

In addition, I need to offer a clarification. I wrote:<\/p>\n

\u201cif you put the Skywave SSB in single sideband mode, it will scan the ham bands, automatically changing sidebands appropriately as it hops from ham band to ham band. Note: when you check the memories stored during an ATS ham band search, you may not find anything there, simply because ham transmissions come and go much more often than international broadcasters.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

All of that is true, but the Skywave does not store whether the frequency is USB or LSB. My bad; I should have noticed that.<\/p>\n

Cheers, Jock<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Many thanks to SWLing Post contributor, Jock Elliott (KB2GOM), who shares the following guest post: I made a mistake, but it\u2019s good news for CCrane Skywave SSB owners. Recently, I published a guest post for the SWLing Post in which I wrote enthusiastically about the ATS feature on the CCrane Skywave SSB. 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