[Elecraft] [K3] VFO fine-coarse tuning

[Ron D'Eau Claire]

Hi, Bill:

I can see how your idea for killing the offset at the first movement of the
VFO would work, at least for smaller jumps. I'm not sure I'd appreciate my
VFO jumping say, 50 Hz, perhaps in the "wrong" direction, to 'zero up' the
frequency when I touched the VFO at a 100 Hz tuning rate though. 

Ron 


-----Original Message-----

Hi Ron,

"Channelization" is a subject that is beginning to create more and more
debate on the air. I must admit that, being a 6m operator where
channelization makes sense other than in a contest environment (the band is
large -- why QRM each other?), I might have a predisposition in that
direction.

But aside from the channelization debate, yes, I understand your initial
objection. The way to solve that is to simply leave the actual VFO frequency
unchanged when pressing the COARSE button -- but as soon as the VFO
frequency is moved, drop the offset.

Part of my "intuitive" feeling about this undoubtedly comes from how the
TS-2000 was designed to work, and I guess I'm used to that. I don't know
about current FT amd IC rigs.

Bill W5WVO