Bill W5WVO wrote: > I have discovered one "gotcha" in my workaround, and that is the inability to > lock the "B" VFO knob -- the KNOB, not the VFO -- because if you accidentally > touch it, you lose the 700 Hz offset. I've been training myself not to touch > it, > but it would be nice if there was a way to lock it down so it wouldn't do > anything. Removing the knob and epoxying the shaft seems a little extreme. > ;-) > Perhaps a function that does this could be implemented that could be invoked > from one of the PF function buttons. > > Of course, all of this is moot if the VFO mode-switching behavior gets fixed > so > it works correctly in the first place. I have faith that Wayne will > eventually > get to it. But the Elecraft folk do tend to respond to the squeakiest wheel > first, so if this behavior is at all important to you, please let Wayne know. > Otherwise he will continue to think I'm the only nutcase who cares about it. > :-) > > While we're on the subject -- Is there anyone else here besides me who thinks > that the "normal" CW tuning behavior should reflect the default SSB sideband > for > a given frequency band? In other words, instead of always tuning like LSB, > the > "CW" mode would tune like LSB on 160, 80, and 40, and would tune like USB on > all > other bands. "CW REV" would reverse this default correlation. Seems more > intuitive to me than the way it is now. > > Bill W5WVO > > > Julian, G4ILO wrote: >> Ralph Parker wrote: >>> Good work, Bill! >>> Non-6m ops don't quite understand the problem, complicated by the >>> fact that >>> "normal" CW is on LSB, making us ex-Yaesu drivers crazy. >>> >> I often find myself wandering around the CW end of 20m in the wrong >> mode, then finding that I "lose" the station after switching to CW. >> So I don't understand why this is being discussed as of benefit only >> to VHF operators. >> >> I have managed to implement the VFO shift when changing modes to/from >> CW in the next version of KComm. >> >> ----- >> Julian, G4ILO. K2 #392 K3 #222. >> * G4ILO's Shack - http://www.g4ilo.com >> * KComm - http://www.g4ilo.com/kcomm.html >> * KTune - http://www.g4ilo.com/ktune.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 > > Hello Bill,
I am with you on needing a way to be able to switch back and forth from CW to USB on 6m, and I also use CW-R for this. However, I like to keep my B VFO free for other things - like quickly QSYing off the calling frequency by just switching to the other VFO. I think the neat way to switch to CW and back to SSB again would be to somehow define your steps as a macro and program it into some hot key so you could automatically do all the steps quickly and without error by just pressing a single button. I don't know if this is possible with the K3, but I imagine that it is. While we are on the subject, I still would like to see use footswitch operators be able to send CW to SSB operators, like the VOX people do ;-) VY 73, Lance -- Lance Collister, W7GJ (ex: WN3GPL, WA3GPL, WA1JXN, WA1JXN/C6A, ZF2OC/ZF8) P.O. Box 73 Frenchtown, MT 59834 USA QTH: DN27UB TEL: (406) 626-5728 URL: http://www.bigskyspaces.com/w7gj 2m DXCC #11/6m DXCC #815 ______________________________________________________________ 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
