[Elecraft] CQ WW CW & a K3

[Vic K2VCO]

hank k8dd wrote:

> Let's say I am listening to 1830.000 to a DX station.  VFO A
> The DX station says QSX 1829 so I set VFO B to 1829.00
> The RIT is on and is + 1 KHZ - so A reads 1830.100
> Now I want to listen to the pile on the TX frequency, so I press REV.
> Now my TX freq reads 1829.100 and my RX freq on the bottom reads 1830.00
> I find where the last station worked is and release the REV button.  The
> TX freq is going to be 100 Hz low!
> Seems to me that the RIT should stay with the frequency and not the 
> location of that frequency.
> As I saw it this afternoon that could cause me to not be on the TX 
> frequency where I want to be transmitting.

I'm assuming that you did have SPLIT on and that you meant that the RIT 
was set to +100 Hz, not +1 kHz.

You're right that the K3 thinks of RIT as part of VFO A. And note that, 
unlike some other rigs, you can't choose to receive on VFO B -- you 
always receive on A and you have a choice to transmit on A or B (of 
course, you can copy the frequency from B to A and then receive on it; 
but you are still using VFO A to receive.

What you did is a funny scenario, since if you were using split, you 
would tune the DX station with VFO A and not use RIT. RIT would not help 
  in this situation.

If the RIT "stayed with the frequency" then when you pressed REV, A 
would read 1829 and B would be 1830.1. This is probably harmless with 
REV, since you wouldn't operate the RIT while holding it. But suppose 
you did A/B. Then what would happen when you clear the RIT? Should B go 
back to 1830? Should A go to 1828.9? Should A/B work differently in this 
respect than REV?
-- 
73,
Vic, K2VCO
Fresno CA
http://www.qsl.net/k2vco
K3 no. 00007