Mike, I have version 4.60 firmware and I also use Auto Spot all the time. But, when I discovered this problem, after some experimenting around like with THR and some other things, I finally tried the VFO fine tuning, before it was on course tuning. By fine tuning I mean TWO digits to the right of the decimal point and course tuning is ONE digit to the right of the decimal point. I hardly ever use the finest tuning of 3 digits to the right.
By the way, my THR is also 2 but I experimented with a variety of levels when I had this problem. I would test it again right now but I need to get my breakfast and then head off to work. 73, phil, K7PEH On Mar 13, 2013, at 6:16 AM, Mike K2MK <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi Phil, > > I have version 4.60 firmware and I used Auto Spot extensively in the ARRL DX > contest last month. Perhaps 500 times and it worked every time. It is my > favorite K3 feature. I didn't have the finest tuning engaged. I had two > digits after the decimal point showing. Perhaps Auto Spot's effectiveness is > influenced by the CWT threshold setting. Mine is set to THR=2. You can see > this setting by holding the CWT button and you can change it by turning > VFO-A. > > 73, > Mike K2MK > > > Phil Hystad-3 wrote >> I had the same problem the other day. Instead of driving the signal to >> the center of CWT it was shifted way off the signal. I noticed that my >> VFO was on course tune so I switched to fine tune and now the SPOT feature >> worked just fine. It seems that the VFO must be in fine tuning mode for >> this to work but I don't remember this always being the case. I can't say >> for sure but I think I have used SPOT with CWT on both fine and course >> tuning and it always worked. Well, at least I think it was that way. My >> guess is maybe something changed in the recent update. >> >> 73, phil, K7PEH > > > > > > -- > View this message in context: > http://elecraft.365791.n2.nabble.com/Trouble-with-Auto-Spot-K3-tp7571164p7571221.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:[email protected] > > 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:[email protected] This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html
