"  perhaps there should be a note in the User Manual that, at least
for Icom rigs, the 'Fake It' split mode is preferred/recommended?"

"Rig" mode works fine with my IC-7200 and IC-7300.

73, Paul K6PO

On Mon, Mar 4, 2019 at 1:45 PM Martin Davies G0HDB <marting0...@gmail.com>
wrote:

> On 4 Mar 2019 at 4:51, Black Michael via wsjt-devel wrote:
>
> > Both conditions need to fixed.  VFO-A needs to be set as selected VFO
> > and VFO-B set to the split freq at all times.  Otherwise a tune
> > instigated from an external source will be on the wrong frequency.And
> > yes...I know you can click Tune in WSJT-X and then VFO-B gets
> > set...but that leaves the amplifier in-line with too much power to
> > tune and for some could fry the amplifier.
> > Mike
>
> Hi Mike (and all), for what it's worth I've found that using the 'Fake It'
> split mode, rather than
> the 'Rig' mode, works best with my Icom IC-7600.
>
> Some years ago, when I first tried using the 'Rig' mode with WSJT I found
> that the time taken
> to switch VFOs (from A to B in my case) and then to re-tune the
> newly-selected VFO with the
> desired offset (eg. +1kHz) was significantly longer than just re-tuning
> the active VFO,
> presumably because there was a longer command sequence to be received,
> processed and
> then actioned by the rig.  The delay in the rig switching VFOs and then
> re-tuning was
> resulting in the transmission not starting until (IIRC) some 2-3secs into
> a Tx period.
>
> I would assume that using the 'Fake It' mode would work equally well
> irrespective of which
> VFO was the active one, so perhaps there should be a note in the User
> Manual that, at least
> for Icom rigs, the 'Fake It' split mode is preferred/recommended?
>
> --
> 73, Martin G0HDB
>
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