ELITE SATELLIT
QUICK GUIDE
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GETTING STARTED continued
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MEMORY FUNCTIONS
BASIC RECEIVER OPERATION continued
LISTENING TO SHORWAVE STATIONS AND
CHOOSING THE BEST SHORTWAVE BAND
Absolutely no technical knowledge or prior experience
is necessary to fully enjoy listening to shortwave sta-
tions from around the world. It’s helpful to understand
the meaning of the term ‘bands’. For a more detailed
intro- duction to shortwave listening refer to the
section titled UNDERSTANDING SHORTWAVE BANDS
in the USE AND CARE GUIDE’S APPENDIX.
Here are the most important bands with band name
and frequency range: 13m, 21450-21850 KHz; 16m,
17480-17900 KHz; 19m, 15100-15800 KHz; 22m,
13570-13870 KHz; 25m, 11600-12200 KHz; 31m, 9200-
10000 KHz; 41m, 7100-7600 KHz; 49m, 5800- 6200
KHz; 60m, 4750-5060 KHz.
Following are the best bands for the various times of
day. This information can be used worldwide. Note
that some bands overlap several periods of the day
and that it always pays to experiment.
SUNRISE AND EARLY MORNING:
25, 31, 41, and 49 meters are usually good.
MID DAY:
13, 16, 19, 22 and, in some areas, 25 meters. Some-
times these bands open up early, so test them in the
morning too.
LATE AFTERNOON AND AROUND SUNSET:
19, 22, 25, 31, 41 and 49 meters.
NIGHT:
60, 49, 41, 31, 25 meters, with 49, 31 and 25 usually
the best. In the summer months, the 16 and 19 meter
day bands sometimes stay open at night.
TUNING AROUND IN THE SHORTWAVE
BANDS
Refer to the previous section titled SHORTWAVE
METER BAND DESIGNATOR ENTRY to get into a short-
wave band appropriate for the time of day that you’re
listening. Using this method will place you at the be-
ginning of the band’s frequency range. Use the tuning
knob described in the previous section titled MANUAL
TUNING to search for stations, staying within the
bands frequency range to optimize results. Alternately,
use the SEEK feature described in a later section titled
SEEK FUNCTION to have the Elite Satellit automatically
scan and stop on shortwave stations.
FM OPERATION
FM reception is perhaps the easiest mode to use on
the Elite Satellit receiver.
The AGC and BANDWIDTH settings are not used
in FM. In fact, all of the function soft keys along
the bottom edge of the display except the ‘MENU’ soft
key have no function on FM and the labels on the dis-
play for these soft keys disappear. Attempting to use
one of these soft keys will result in an ‘ERROR’ beep.
All FM stations in the U.S. end in an odd 100 kHz, i.e.
97.7 MHz, and are spaced 200 kHz apart. The Elite
Satellit receiver has the ability to tune in 100 kHz steps
to allow tuning in between stations to help eliminate
interference to weaker stations that could be covered
up by stronger adjacent stations.
Additionally, when headphones are used, or if the
LINE OUT jack is fed into an external stereo sound
system, true stereo reception is possible. The ‘STEREO’
indicator [Figure 5, # 44] on the display will appear
when a stereo station is tuned in. ‘MONO’ will appear
The Elite Satellit receiver contains 1700 memory chan-
nels that can be used to store and recall commonly
monitored frequencies. The first 500 of these are re-
ferred to simply as MEMORY channels. The remaining
1200 are referred to as COUNTRY channels.
The 500 MEMORY channels are displayed in groups of
10 per screen and each saved frequency can be stored
with an identifying name.
The 1200 COUNTRY memory channels are divided
among 111 countries from Afghanistan to Yugoslavia
with 10 memory channels assigned per country and
with 90 memory channels remaining with no country
assigned. These COUNTRY memory channels are num-
bered from 501 to 1700. They are displayed in groups
of ten, and can be used to store and recall commonly
mon- itored frequencies. Unlike the MEMORY chan-
nels, COUNTRY channels cannot have names assigned
to each channel.
AM OPERATION
For general tuning and listening on the LW, MW or
SW bands, normal AM mode is best. However, under
less than ideal reception conditions, several options are
available that can improve reception.
AM SYNC (Synchronous)
Selective fading is a condition that frequently occurs
on the SW bands in which the carrier of the desired
station momentarily fades away, making the remain-
ing received information difficult or impossible to
understand.
This condition can frequently be improved consider-
ably by engaging AM SYNC mode. To do this, press
the ‘AM’ soft key [Figure 5, # 50] when already in
the AM mode. You will observe “AM SYNC” flashing
briefly above the ‘AM” soft key label until the desired
station is locked in. Further improvement may be
obtainable while in this mode by pressing the SSB soft
key [Figure 5, # 51]. Repeatedly pressing this soft key
will cycle through USB (upper sideband), LSB (lower
sideband), and DSB (double sideband) one of which
may reduce adjacent channel interference.
BW (Bandwidth)
Repeatedly pressing the ‘BW’ soft key [Figure 5, #
48] will cycle through three IF bandwidths of 7 kHz,
4.0 kHz, and 2.3 kHz. The narrower the bandwidth
selected, the “muddier” the received signal will sound.
While 6.0 kHz is the preferred setting for best fidelity,
narrower settings will sometimes improve reception
under crowd- ed band conditions by filtering out
nearby interference.
AGC (Automatic Gain Control)
In AM, SW or LW bands pressing the ‘AGC’ soft key
[Figure 5, #47 will turn the AGC function On or Off.
SSB RECEPTION
SSB, single sideband, is needed to listen to certain
types of signals, including amateur radio two-way com-
munications and Morse code (often called CW)
in this location if the transmitting station is not in stereo,
if no signal is being received, or if MONO is selected
from the AUDIO SETTINGS menu.
To select between STEREO and MONO from the AUDIO
SETTINGS menu, proceed as follows:
•
Press the ‘MENU’ soft key.
•
Press the ‘Direct-Key-Input’ ‘2’ key or press ‘MENU’
two more times. This will access the AUDIO SETTINGS
menu.
• Press the ‘Direct-Key-Input’ ‘1’ key to cycle between
MONO and STEREO.
When STEREO is enabled, the receiver will automatically
switch to stereo and provide left and right audio from
the HEADPHONE and LINE OUT jacks when a stereo FM
signal is being received. If the headphones are removed
while listening to a stereo broadcast the receiver will
provide monaural audio from the internal or an external
speaker.
Both MEMORY and COUNTRY channels can be scanned
using the SEEK function which can stop, or they can
be scanned selectively using the T.SCAN function. With
MEMORY and/or COUNTRY channels programmed, you
can use the T.SCAN function to selectively monitor desired
frequencies. The following operating parameters may be
stored in any MEMORY or country channel: Frequency,
Mode, Bandwidth, AGC setting, PBT setting, Synchronous
Detector setting.
STORING A CHANNEL
To store a channel from VFO mode proceed as follows:
First select the mode and frequency that you wish to
store, as you normally would do in VFO mode. Make
sure you have set all the function parameters to your
preference.
Then press the ‘STORE’ key [Figure1, # 9], followed by
the ‘MEMORY’ or ‘COUNTRY’ soft key [Figure 5, # 54 &
#52 respectively]. This will take you to the MEMORY or
COUNTRY screen similar to that shown in Figure 6.
Use the ‘TUNING’ knob [Figure 1, #18] or the ‘< SELECT
>’ key [Figure 1, #8] to select the desired blank MEMO-
RY or COUNTRY number.
Press the ‘STORE’ key again. In ‘COUNTRY’ mode, the
selected frequency will appear at the selected COUN-
TRY channel in reverse video, a confirming beep will be
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