No, not intuitive. MKR B is the VFO B frequency. Often one wants to listen on the B frequency. It may be on another band. SPLIT is a special case, not the norm.
...bill nr4c Sent from my Verizon Wireless 4G LTE DROID Gary Smith <[email protected]> wrote: >Reading the P3 screen I see a station transmitting. I use Marker A >(Green) to pin me on that desired station as soon as I tap the knob >to QSY me to a desired signal. > >I listen to the station and they say UP so I know to hold in the MKR >button to activate B ((Magenta) I see where the last transmission is >and I place the Magenta marker at that location and tap: The Sub Rx >goes to that frequency where the DX was last listening but sub is not >engaged, it just sits on that frequency and does nothing with it. > >Problem is that if I don't then reach over and manually hold the >split button on the K3 itself to have the K3 transmit on the DX >listening frequency, I'll still keep transmitting on the DX transmit >frequency because the K3 will not have gone split; its as if the >procedure is halted half way and it shouldn't function this way, its >not intuitive. > >If I'm going to the effort to engage Marker B to QSY its because I >want to transmit on the Marker B frequency. What do I have to the do >differently to force the K3 go split to transmit on the B freq when I >tap on MKR B? > >Thanks, > >Gary >KA1J > >--- >This email is free from viruses and malware because avast! Antivirus >protection is active. >http://www.avast.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 >Message delivered to [email protected] > ______________________________________________________________ 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 Message delivered to [email protected]
