Augie,
And what success do you expect in hitting 10.101 or 18.068?
Unfortunately the ham bands don't all start with .000 lower limits.
What is really needed is one button press to get to the band you want.
Two to six button presses alone or in combo with knob twisting simply
isn't acceptable.
Standing on your head while twisting a knob behind one's back isn't either.
73 de Brian/K3KO
Augie Hansen wrote:
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No, I meant a tuning rate of 5 MHz per full turn of the VFO knob...
but it WOULD increment the frequency readout in 1 MHz steps, as you
suggest.
5 MHz per one full turn would, for instance, let you go from 7.0xx MHz
to 15.1xx MHz in about one and a half turns of the VFO knob, acting
more like a band switch than a VFO. Perhaps 10 MHz per turn would be
even better. The current Coarse Tune rate (1 or 2 MHz?) is not coarse
enough to act as a band switch.
Instead of tuning knob rotation, how about press and hold COARSE while
tapping the ^ or v BAND buttons to move by 1 MHz increments? These
combinations are currently not used and this technique would be more
in keeping with the way many modern rigs use their up/down buttons.
Then the stepping rate is determined by how fast you tap.
Gus Hansen
KB0YH
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