Hi Paul, Just a follow up to the problem you reported. I was experimenting today and experienced the same problem you mentioned when I had the VFO tuning set to coarse (one digit after the decimal point). If it was set to fine (2 digits) or very fine (3 digits) it worked perfectly. In fact, even if the signal is perfectly centered in coarse tuning, pressing auto spot chased the VFO off frequency.
I did notice something interesting, however. When in fine or very fine tuning pressing auto spot causes 3 digits to the right of the decimal to briefly appear. That suggests to me that even when only 2 digits are showing pressing auto spot momentarily engages higher resolution for spotting. When in coarse mode with only one digit showing pressing auto spot does not cause 3 or even 2 digits to momentarily appear. Perhaps the programmers might be able to improve the auto spot function in coarse tuning if interest warrants a change. From a personal point of view I was not able to manually tune CW signals in coarse mode (one digit showing). Even with the assistance of my P3 I found it far to difficult for my unsteady hands to accomplish the task. 73, Mike K2MK KC2NYU wrote > Phil - I tried your suggestion of using VFO fine tuning and that does seem > to help. I do not see the signal being driven off as I had previously. > Will keep experimenting with. Thanks for the suggestion, > > 73 Paul kc2nyu > > Phil Hystad Wed, 13 Mar 2013 07:23:02 -0700 > 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 -- View this message in context: http://elecraft.365791.n2.nabble.com/Trouble-with-Auto-Spot-K3-tp7571164p7571381.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
