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> From: "Ian White" <gm3...@ifwtech.co.uk> > Subject: Re: [Elecraft] K3 - Eric &Co.... Please relocate the Link/UnLink > button. > Date: March 5, 2013 3:03:36 AM EST > To: "'Wayne Burdick'" <n...@elecraft.com>, "'David F. Reed'" > <w5sv.d...@gmail.com> > Cc: 'elecraft' <elecraft@mailman.qth.net> > > A manual Link control is not necessary for diversity reception. 'Sync > and link' already happen automatically when entering Diversity mode. > > If the manual Link control is removed, Diversity would then become the > easily accessible 'hold' feature of the SUB button (available if the > second receiver is present, otherwise having no effect). I would love having Diversity become the "easily accessible HOLD feature of the SUB button", as suggested by Ian. But "if the manual Link control is removed", how would one then engage it for non-Diversity applications? > Another source of confusion in Diversity mode is the frequency display > for VFO B, which is not the true frequency of that VFO. (Obscurely, it > is the frequency that VFO B *would* jump to on TX, *if* the operator > *also* chooses to engage SPLIT.) That false frequency indication can > easily mislead the operator into believing that the two VFOs have not > been successfully synchronized. > In normal diversity reception, the display should show the *true* VFO B > frequency - reassuringly synchronized and slaved to VFO A. It should > only display that alternative frequency if SPLIT has actually been > selected. I understand Ian's point about "confusion in Diversity mode"; I suffered from that the first few hundred times I used it, too. However...I think I'd still like to see where VFO B "would jump to on TX" before engaging the SPLIT button. For me, a better solution would be to dim the VFO B display (relative to VFO A intensity) when in Diversity mode and Split has not been selected. (I have no idea if that would be possible.) The slowly blinking decimal point is a bit too subtle and requires me to stare at it far too long to be the "right" way to indicate Diversity mode for me. Bud, W2RU ______________________________________________________________ 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
