[Elecraft] Dial LOCK Behaviour - Bug or Feature?

[Rick Tavan]

OK, it's a bug, and local at that. Thanks for the sudden and plentiful 
responses. It seems that most users are not seeing the behaviour I see 
although a few have seen something similar on isolated occasions. I have 
observed that the jump in frequency across LOCK and unLOCK in my rig is 
NOT proportional to the amount of dial motion. It is not even in the 
same direction! But it is reproducible every time and the amount of 
shift seems to be unpredictable. Unless the implementation of dial LOCK 
involves an unusual interaction of HW and SW, there must be some kind of 
configuration dependent software bug or else a bent bit in my PROM.  No 
need for further replies except from the K2 Department of the Elecraft 
Software Division (Wayne?).  ;-)

/Rick

Rick Tavan wrote:

> When I hold LOCK on my K2, frequency locks even if the tuning knob is 
> moved, say by accidental nudging. This is as expected. But when I hold 
> it again to restore tuning, the rig jumps to a different frequency, 
> presumably wherever it would have gone while the knob was turning if 
> LOCK had not been engaged. This seems wrong to me as it negates half 
> the utility of the LOCK function. There is no way anyone could want to 
> jump to an unpredictable frequency based on blind tuning or accidental 
> nudging. But many people will often want to stay where they started 
> out. Both the MP and the 930 work that way. I think this is a K2 
> firmware bug (or perhaps a bug in my build).  Does anyone agree with me?
>
> 73,
>
> /Rick N6XI