SPECTOR is the soul of Jaguar showing the signal power on each exact frequency (offset). The SPECTOR display can be a bunch of sharp needles or "mountainous terrain", depending on the selected SPECTOR zoom level.

The calculated offset area is 500 Hz on both sides of the tuned frequency, and your SPECTOR span is limited only by the screen resolution, so, on low-resolution displays, it may not be possible to see the full 1-kHz span. Also, in any case, if you want to see beyond +/- 500 Hz, you must tune in to the adjacent frequency. Fortunately, there is only a handful of cases where a station's offset is beyond this 500- Hz limit.

In addition to SPECTOR zoom (increasing/decreasing the SPECTOR span), user can use some optional features in SPECTOR:

• cut the height of the peaks to half (SPECTOR peaks will then cover less graphics data)
• add the mirrot image of the peaks to the top (TOP SPECTOR)
• show SPECTOR peaks transparent to get a better match with offset FLAGS
• display the SPECTOR peaks with a shadow
• add a "rifle grid" as a measurement aid (SPECTOR SIGHT)

In the example below all these features have been activated and the largest possible SPECTOR zoom level (GIANT SPECTOR) is in use. When using GIANT SPECTOR the user can see only a very small area around the nominal.




HOW TO


SPECTOR size (span) can be zoomed by clicking TOOLBAR > ZOOM. Repeated clicking rotates the size SMALL > MEDIUM > LARGE > GIANT. In addition, right clicking this icon you'll get a small popup menu which allows to select the SPECTOR span directly from the menu, or even disable the SPECTOR display. You can also select calibration services from this menu.

SPECTOR display characteristics can be changed via TOOLBAR > SETTINGS > SPECTOR (see SETTINGS help for more details).

Users often need to jump to a specific exact offset without changing the time position. One way is to type the full frequency XXXX.XXXX and press enter. SPECTOR offers a faster way: you can move your mouse cursor over the bottom area of SPECTOR => red flag containing the exact offset is shown => you can jump to that frequency with a mouse click. And there's no need to position the mouse cursor exactly to the correct offset of the SPECTOR peak: just move the mouse cursor into the peak area, ang Jaguar will automatically adjust the offset shown/used in the jump based on the exact peaking offset.