[Elecraft] Another K2 / MixW problem

[Charles Greene]

At 12:37 PM 1/27/2002 +0000, Julian, G4ILO wrote:

That's because the K2 reverses the sidebands on 21 Mhz and above, and MixW 
does not.  I don't know any other radio that does this, so It might be 
something else you could ask Nick to do to make MixW more compatible with 
the K2.


>I think I've found one other thing that still doesn't work right with
>MixW's new K2 support. The macro I mentioned before to center a PSK signal
>within the filter passband works fine in the data modes. When I use a
>similar macro to center a CW signal, it moves the signal in the wrong
>direction on 21MHz and up. This appears connected with the setting on the
>CAT configuration dialog "CW is LSB". If I uncheck this, the macro seems to
>work OK on the high bands but moves the signal the wrong direction on the
>low bands.
>
>I think that MixW is assuming that CW is always either LSB or USB,
>according to the setting of the check box. Perhaps this assumption is
>correct for Kenwood radios? Could someone else confirm my findings before I
>bother Nick with this additional problem? The K2 appears to switch sideband
>for CW on 21MHz and up, which MixW probably doesn't know about. (All this
>time I thought it was my poor confused brain not being able to remember
>which way to turn the knob to make the pitch change the way I want!)

73, Chas, W1CG