Wayne,
Maybe it would be possible to have the best of both worlds. Have the
firmware remember the frequency in VFO A. With your example of VFO A at
7040.23, have a clockwise turn of the RIT knob move the frequency to
7041.00, 7042.00, 7043.00 etc. Reversing the direction of the RIT knob
would result in, 7042.00, 7041.00, " 7040.23 ", 7040.00, 7039.00 etc.
If you move the RIT by mistake, all you have to do is rotate the
control until you see an odd frequency (*.xx). That will be your
original VFO A frequency. Any rotation of the VFO A knob or band change
allows a new reference frequency to be stored with the next RIT knob
rotation.
Most SSB contacts and nets are on even KHz so the RIT can be used to
quickly get on an even frequency but it would not work to return to the
original VFO A frequency unless some other form of announcement is used
(a beep perhaps!).
This is just food for thought.
73,
Tony Fegan VE3QF
Wayne Burdick wrote:
> There will be a menu entry.
>
> W
>
> Sent from my iPhone
>
> On Sep 21, 2009, at 4:55 PM, Don Wilhelm <[email protected]> wrote:
>
>> Wayne,
>>
>> In the spirit of not desiring "magic buttons", I can say that if I
>> want that behavior on my radio, I will set the dial (with VFO A
>> knob) to ".00" and then I can use the RIT knob to move in 1 kHz
>> increments.
>> In other words, I like the behavior as it is now. If I am tuning
>> the SSB portion of the band, yes, I will "quantize" the low order
>> digits manually, but if I am tuning the CW portion, automatically
>> quantizing the low order digits is not as great an idea - I may want
>> a particular offset from "00", so let me do it myself if I desire,
>> but please do not force it on me.
>>
>> 73,
>> Don W3FPR
>>
>> Wayne Burdick wrote:
>>> Sorry -- geekSpeak :)
>>>
>>> Suppose the VFO were tuned to, say, 7040.23, in CW mode. Further
>>> assume your CONFIG:VFO CRS menu parameter is set to 1.0 kHz (i.e.,
>>> your COARSE tuning step is set to 1.0 kHz in CW mode). If you then
>>> go into COARSE mode and move the VFO up one tic, you'll get
>>> 7041.23 with present firmware. In the future you'll get 7042.00:
>>> "quantized" to the nearest "quantum" which in this case is the
>>> next even multiple of 1.0 kHz.
>>>
>>> The same will apply if you have the RIT/XIT offset control enabled
>>> for use as VFO coarse tuning when it's not being used for RIT/XIT
>>> (see CONFIG:VFO OFS). The control will be quantized just like the
>>> VFO when it is in COARSE mode.
>>>
>>> The VFO already quantizes with smaller tuning increments selected
>>> (e.g. 50 Hz). So quantizing COARSE increments would be more
>>> consistent with present behavior.
>>>
>>> 73,
>>> Wayne
>>> N6KR
e NF4L
>>>>
>>>> Wayne Burdick wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> I plan to change VFO coarse tuning in general so that it quantizes.
>>>>>
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