I always used fixed mode. Nope doesn't help. There needs to be a marker at least at the bottom of the waterfall so you can mark the signal before it disappears and shift frequency to it.
On Wed, Nov 4, 2015 at 1:11 PM, Steve Glickstein <w4fmd.st...@gmail.com> wrote: > Try Fixed/Tracking and see if that helps. > > 73, Steve W4FMD > > > On 11/4/2015 12:32 PM, Steve Ellington wrote: > >> Paul et al.... >> "Freeze" locks up everything including the marker so how does that help? >> >> When searching for signals we might see one on the waterfall that is half >> way down the screen. We want to mark, click or do something to get us >> exactly on frequency so we can either wait for the signal to return or try >> calling QRZ however there doesn't seem to be a way to get on frequency >> other than a rough guess. >> >> At first when you mentioned "freeze" I was excited but now I find that >> using freeze makes the situation even worse since nothing responds. I'm >> just looking at a locked up system! >> >> The marker needs to be independent of the displayed material....Like a >> mouse on virtually any other SDR software. >> Is that something Elecraft can do or is it impossible with this hardware >> configuration? >> >> Thanks >> Steve N4LQ >> >> On Wed, Nov 4, 2015 at 11:49 AM, Paul Saffren N6HZ <pa...@elecraft.com> >> wrote: >> >> Hi Steve, >>> >>> That's how it works. If you don't want the signal to roll off the bottom >>> of >>> the screen, use Freeze to stop the screen from updating or turn averaging >>> on >>> to slow the screen updates and provide more history. >>> >>> Kind regards, >>> >>> Paul >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> -- >>> View this message in context: >>> >>> http://elecraft.365791.n2.nabble.com/P3-Waterfall-Marker-tp7609925p7609928.html >>> Sent from the Elecraft mailing list archive at Nabble.com. >>> ______________________________________________________________ >>> Elecraft mailing list >>> Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft >>> Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm >>> Post: mailto:Elecraft@mailman.qth.net >>> >>> This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net >>> Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html >>> Message delivered to steven...@gmail.com >>> >>> ______________________________________________________________ >> Elecraft mailing list >> Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft >> Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm >> Post: mailto:Elecraft@mailman.qth.net >> >> This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net >> Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html >> Message delivered to w4fmd.st...@gmail.com >> >> > ______________________________________________________________ > Elecraft mailing list > Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft > Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm > Post: mailto:Elecraft@mailman.qth.net > > This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net > Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html > Message delivered to steven...@gmail.com > ______________________________________________________________ Elecraft mailing list Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm Post: mailto:Elecraft@mailman.qth.net This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html Message delivered to arch...@mail-archive.com
