[1000mp] tuning up while split

[Arie Kleingeld en Marian van Boheemen]

Hi Pete,

This is the way I always do it:
-my sub receiver is always on
- I press the A->B button
- press the red led on the sub vfo
- take the sub vfo a few khz off the freq and start tuning

73,
Arie PA3AAM



----- Original Message -----
From: Pete Smith <n4zr@contesting.com>
To: <1000mp@mailman.qth.net>
Sent: Wednesday, January 30, 2002 9:38 PM
Subject: [1000mp] tuning up while split


> I just committed (again) my most frequent operating error.  In order to
> tune up (key down) before attempting to work VP8GEO split, I had to tune
my
> main VFO off his frequency, switch to CW mode, and go key down.  Then I
had
> to move the main VFO back to his frequency and, of course, forgot to
switch
> back to split transmit.
>
> I'm getting tired of hearing "up up."  There must be a better way to do
> this.  The particular problem is to change mode to CW on the TX VFO so I
> can tune up using that VFO, and then simply change back to USB and move it
> back on the calling frequency.  I can't find this in the manual, though it
> MUST be there, right?
>
> 73, Pete N4ZR
>
> Sometimes a tower is
> just a tower
>
>
>
>
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