Hi from KT4JR, wife of K4MWE, and new co-owner of a K3 with 144mHz transverter built in. I have not been able to understand how repeaters are supposed to be set up and I am hoping some kind spirit out there can clarify for me.
I have entered the repeater frequency in the VFO A cell of the memory editor on the computer. I have selected FM so that offset and PL tone choices appear next to the VFO B cell. I can put in the offset and PL tone, but do I enter a frequency in the VFO B cell? I can't tell whether the program would apply the offset to the VFO A frequency or to the VFO B frequency, so I don't know whether to put the same entry in A and in B, put the actual transmit frequency in B, leave B blank, or what. Say we have a repeater with VFO A frequency at 145.20 mHz and a negative offset of 0.6 mHz. So my transmit frequency needs to be 144.60 What should my table row look like? What goes in the VFO B cell? Name VFO A VFO B offset PL tone ABC club 145.20 _____ -0.6 82.5 A related question (why I can't figure out the above) is where on the K3 I could actually see the result. Is there some way I can display the frequency I am transmitting on using the display screen of the K3? Do I need to set the K3 to split before using a repeater, in addition to setting the above? If there is a pre-fab dummy guide for repeater set-up, please point me toward it! Finally, I have not figured out the squelch yet either. is there a set-up guide for squelch? Clearly this radio is amazingly flexible, and I need to keep on studying! THANKS for your help! Julie KT4JR in Raleigh, NC ______________________________________________________________ Elecraft mailing list Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm Post: mailto:[email protected] This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html
