[Elecraft] another vote

David Wilburn dave.wilburn at verizon.net
Thu Jan 17 09:48:23 EST 2008


It have keypad entry.  Not that what you are discussing isn't a nice 
feature, but you just plug in a frequency instead of spinning?  This 
used to drive me nuts using my friends TS-440.  No keypad entry. 
Something I have always required in a rig.


Dave Wilburn
K4DGW
K2/100 - S/N 5982


Steve Jackson wrote:
> "Or the faster you spin the knob the larger the stepping increment."
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> Yes, that's the right way to do this.  
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> And, after the code is written to read the encoder this way, apply it to the VFO as well.
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> I'd much rather spin the knob fast and have the rig accelerate tuning (like my Icom did) than to have to hit the consarned rate button all the time.  I'd pay $$ extra to get little pieces of functionality like that.
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