On 2015-02-18 11:33 PM, Ian White wrote:
my suggestion was to offer Quick Split as an option that could only be selected through a new item in the Configuration menu, as an alternative behavior for the existing [SPLIT] button.
That is *wrong* on so many levels and not even the "big boys" pervert the basic split function with an automatic offset. As you point out the MK V did have the capability but I never used it one time in the ten years or so I used the rig on a regular basis (it's still in the closet unused since getting the K3s). BTW, I can't find "quick split" in either the TS-590 or TS-990 manuals so it's still far from universal (or obvious). To force a choice between simply enabling VFO B where I have already set it and enable VFO B at a fixed offset from VFO A is wrong. It sets up for the very thing you complain about - a user who knows the operation of the rig in its normal state walks into a K3 that has been perverted with Quick Split instead of split sets down and can never get split right because quick split constantly wipes out the user's own VFO settings. > No... what I am "really asking for" is WHAT I REALLY WROTE. What you WROTE was an "industry standard feature" - The "big boys" use a second function key or a *hold* of the split button for quick split. Since the "second key" version has always been available by using one of the PF keys, you *must* be advocating the hold option. However, since split is already a hold of A>B, as a practical matter a hold of a hold function is a long hold. Whatever is done should *never* cause the basic definition of split - "select transmit on VFO B where I have it set" to be lost or only available by resetting a menu. Such an option is equivalent to "tune VFO B with the big knob and tune VFO A with the little knob" - it turns the user interface on its head. 73, ... Joe, W4TV ______________________________________________________________ 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]
