P3 Tips for Fixed Tune or Track Mode (courtesy of Mike, K2MK) When you’re in Fixed-Tune mode you will find that sometimes the signal you are interested in is close to one side or the other. By pressing the Center button you can turn the knob and move the station back to the center. I also found it useful when chasing a split DX to put the DX station’s signal on the left side of the screen and looking at the pileup (up in frequency) on the right side of the screen. The Center button is useful for this purpose.
And another trick when in Fixed-Tune mode to get the signal back to the middle of the screen: Set up a top row function key (FN1-FN4) that will toggle between Fixed-Tune and Tracking modes. Then if the station you are watching is not on center just press your function button twice. The first press changes it to Tracking mode which will put the signal at screen center. The second press changes it back to Fixed-Tune mode. Using some of the above techniques (which helped me one day to discover my P3 wasn't working properly and needed a firmware update!), I also found that by running in the Fixed-Tune mode, you could "re-center" the cursor very easily to one side or the other (using CENTER and turning the "SELECT" knob appropriately). Then as you tune across signal peaks (like during a RTTY contest), you can sort of "step" your way across the band, 10 or 20 kHz with each pass. One of the greatest benefits I personally derived from the above (reprinted by courtesy and credit to Mike, K2MK), is making one of my "commands" on the front buttons of the P3 the ability to toggle between Tracking and Fixed-Tune mode - it tends to act like a "reset" button - a couple of quick jabs to the button and the cursor is re-centered, but, because of the second push, is still in the same mode as when I first pressed it. Hope that makes sense - I had to play with it for a few minutes before it became obvious what was going on. Art - N4PJ On Thu, May 3, 2012 at 9:49 AM, tomb18 <tom...@videotron.ca> wrote: > Hi, I would like to get an idea of how people use the Center mode of the > P3 > and for what purpose. > > Also I would like to know what the preference would be in implementing this > in the windows environment. Would you like to have a trackbar to allow you > to slide the frequency up and down? Or would it be better to just select > center mode and then use the mouse to point to where you would like it to > be? > > Thanks for your help. > Tom VA2FSQ > > -- > View this message in context: > http://elecraft.365791.n2.nabble.com/WIndows4P3-Center-mode-questions-tp7523666.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 > ______________________________________________________________ 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
