Hank, I did not see anywhere in your post that you put the K3 into SPLIT. When the DX said QSX down 1 you could have simply gone into split mode and tuned VFO-B with the B knob to 1.829. Then use your REV button to find the current station working the DX and tune to that freq using VFO-A while still holding REV. Remember, VFO-A will be your RX freq and VFO-B your TX freq.
73 Greg AB7R -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of hank k8dd Sent: Sunday, November 25, 2007 7:39 PM To: Elecraft Subject: [Elecraft] CQ WW CW & a K3 I just got home from CQ WW CW ..... a bunch of us got together at a major station and we each picked a band and used our own calls. 10 M - no operator showed up and I don't think the band did either. 15 M - a brand new Omni VII 20 M - me and my K2/100 w/DSP 40 M - AC8W and my other K2/100 80 M - K8AQM and his K2/100 160 M - N8EA and a borrowed K3/100 with no serial number! The K1/100 had the 2.7, 1.8 and 500 filters as I remember. I got to sit in front of the K3 for a little over an hour and came away with two observations ..... Well - three. 1. Best damn receiver I've sat in front of! 2. The small VFO knob had absolutely no drag. I don't know if they are all like that, or if the guy who built it didn't do something. I don't know his call or if I heard it I don't remember it. 3. This is the long, hard to explain thing. Let's say I am listening to 1830.000 to a DX station. VFO A The DX station says QSX 1829 so I set VFO B to 1829.00 The RIT is on and is + 1 KHZ - so A reads 1830.100 Now I want to listen to the pile on the TX frequency, so I press REV. Now my TX freq reads 1829.100 and my RX freq on the bottom reads 1830.00 I find where the last station worked is and release the REV button. The TX freq is going to be 100 Hz low! Seems to me that the RIT should stay with the frequency and not the location of that frequency. As I saw it this afternoon that could cause me to not be on the TX frequency where I want to be transmitting. But, like I said in Nr 1 - best receiver I've ever used. 72 73 Hank K8DD _______________________________________________ Elecraft mailing list Post to: [email protected] You must be a subscriber to post to the list. Subscriber Info (Addr. Change, sub, unsub etc.): http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help: http://mailman.qth.net/subscribers.htm Elecraft web page: http://www.elecraft.com No virus found in this incoming message. Checked by AVG Free Edition. Version: 7.5.503 / Virus Database: 269.16.7/1151 - Release Date: 11/25/2007 4:24 PM No virus found in this outgoing message. Checked by AVG Free Edition. Version: 7.5.503 / Virus Database: 269.16.7/1151 - Release Date: 11/25/2007 4:24 PM _______________________________________________ Elecraft mailing list Post to: [email protected] You must be a subscriber to post to the list. Subscriber Info (Addr. Change, sub, unsub etc.): http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help: http://mailman.qth.net/subscribers.htm Elecraft web page: http://www.elecraft.com
