[Elecraft] Thoughts on split VFO's

[Ron D' Eau Claire]

Ed, W0YK, wrote:

...I make a distinction between "split" (RX and TX on
> different VFOs)
> and RIT/XIT which adds an offset to your RX or TX frequency.  ...Often, in
> a contest, or on the
> DX end of a pileup, I want to be able to have one VFO on transmit, and the
> RIT tuning the for the other station (because it is offset from my TX
> frequency due to error or design ... "listening up 2").  Then, I have the
> other VFO available to intermittantly tune around the band for
> multipliers,
> interference, etc without upsetting the setup on my first VFO.

OH WOW!  I get confused using only TWO VFO's <G>.

Yes, I use SPLIT to give me the same sort of operation I always had with
"separate" transmitter and receiver pairs. I can wiggle the main tuning all
I want and all it changes is the receive frequency. When I want to set a new
transmit frequency, I just tune the receive to that frequency and hit A=B.
That way I don't ever need to use RIT or XIT or fiddle with tuning a station
using the little RIT/XIT knob.

Someone else suggested disabling RIT/XIT when actually operating in SPLIT
mode, which sounds like it would be a help in this case, since you would NOT
want your TX frequency jumping to whatever the other VFO is set for (plus or
minus the XIT setting) when you hit the key.

It didn't matter to me since I don't use RIT/XIT, but it sounds like that
might help in your case.

Ron AC7AC