[Elecraft] K3 - Linking the VFOs for CW - SSB switching

Ron Foster w2rip at yahoo.com
Sat May 3 16:17:39 EDT 2008


Add my vote to this. I can't even estimate how many contacts I have missed while changing modes and retuning. 
   
   - Ron
  
K9ZTV <k9ztv at socket.net> wrote:
  I agree completely with Joe, having found this a convenient feature on 
HF when using an FT-897.

K9ZTV



Joe Subich, W4TV wrote:
> After experiencing it with the FT-2000, I find "auto CW" a joy 
> to use for tuning a quiet band ... I can tune in SSB and, if I 
> find myself in the CW band, answer a CW call without the need 
> to frantically change modes and retune. 
>
> Quite simply, if one is in LSB and taps the key, the radio should 
> automatically shift to CW zero beat with the "normal" CW offset 
> (e.g., 500 Hz, 600 Hz, etc.) - if one is in USB, the radio should 
> shift to CW-R with the proper offset. Similarly, changing modes 
> from LSB to CW should result in no change in received tone and 
> changing modes from USB to CW should automatically select CW-R 
> with no change in received tone.
>
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