LMAO. Maybe that is why the pileups never seemed to big to me. I was only listening where they were. Pretty funny to listen to people call endlessly 20 kc's up the band and the folks that don't have two vfo's trying to work spleeet.
"A slip of the foot you may soon recover, but a slip of the tongue you may never get over." Ben Franklin -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Joe Subich, W4TV Sent: Monday, February 16, 2009 10:57 PM To: 'Tom, N5GE'; [email protected] Subject: Re: [Elecraft] K3: "Qick Split" > Old Ham Geezers learn to do this after a few years of practice or > reading the Complete DX'r by W9KNI, but I hope the rest of you don't > use the procedure, so Ken and I can get 'em and scoot away quickly ;o) Shucks, boy ... now you done gone and gib away da secret <G>. Thet be the diff'nce 'tween real DXers and da 'tenders who be callin' where da DX wuz 5 minutes ago 'cause someone posted his QRG on thet newfangled cluster box. > -----Original Message----- > From: [email protected] > [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Tom, N5GE > Sent: Monday, February 16, 2009 11:45 PM > To: [email protected] > Subject: Re: [Elecraft] K3: "Qick Split" > > > On Mon, 16 Feb 2009 17:49:10 -0000, you wrote: > > >Doesn't "Quick Split" assume the DX is -always- located a fixed > >number of kHz away from "his" TX'ing frequency? This is simply not > >the case, if this is what's is being lobbied for. > > > >If the DX is actually an exact "5 kHz" up, there will still be a need > >to change of one's TX frequency involved on almost every transmission > >... or should be ... if one is an astute DX'er. Do people actually > >simply go "up five" and blindly call? Really? > > > >K5D is an example ... they are spending hours listening DOWN. I've > >worked them this way on four bands so far. I did this when > operating > >from there ... and other DX locations ... BTW. > > > >My most-used control in working SPLIT is the A/B button. A > quick poke > >of A/B and a tune of the A VFO to put it on the "last > worked" station > >in the pileup and another poke of the A/B button to put the that > >frequency in the B VFO. How could this be simpler? > > > >I'm an old poop. Maybe I'm missing something .... > > > >73! Ken Kopp - K0PP > > [email protected] > > The Kenwood TS-950 series rigs have this. When I first read the > manual it sounded great, but in use it was not very benificial, for > the very reason you described. > > Besides if you are an old poop like me and Ken who has learned to > determine the RX tuning routine of the DX station before you call, you > will be moving the Sub RX up and down continuously as you chase **HIS > RX FREQ** up and down in frequency. Old Ham Geezers learn to do this > after a few years of practice or reading the Complete DX'r by W9KNI, > but I hope the rest of you don't use the procedure, so Ken and I can > get 'em and scoot away quickly ;o) > > 73, > > Tom, N5GE > > http://www.n5ge.com > http://www.swotrc.net > ______________________________________________________________ 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 ______________________________________________________________ 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
