[Elecraft] Feature request

[Jim Brassell]

I've got to go along with Joe on this.  The way I do split on an FT2000 now 
and all the radios I've used in the past is to set VFO B to VFO A's 
frequency (the DX frequency), select SPLIT, put VFO B's receiver in either 
my left or right ear, tune VFO B to the last guy the DX worked, and start my 
calling there.  I truly don't understand the advantage of an automatic 
split.  If you are not transmitting where the DX is listening, you will be a 
long time working him.  And what if he is down 5, not up 1?

73,

Jim, K4ZMV


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Joe Subich, W4TV" <lists at subich.com>
To: "'Ian White GM3SEK'" <gm3sek at ifwtech.co.uk>; <elecraft at mailman.qth.net>
Sent: Monday, February 16, 2009 11:17 AM
Subject: Re: [Elecraft] Feature request


>
> I have to disagree ... quick split would cause too may
> other problems like losing the frequency if one has
> already set VFO B (subreciever) to the desired place.
>
> Except for actions explicitly designed to change frequency
> (tune the VFO, change band, recall a memory, etc.), the user
> interface should never change the frequency and it should
> never change the frequency of the "other" VFO.
>
> Any "Quick split" function should require an explicit
> input sequence ... perhaps "Freq Enter, Split" or "XIT,
> set the offset, Split" ... but the current Split
> function should not be overloaded with "quick split."
>
> Even if "Quick Split" were a menu option for "Split,"
> the time to through the menu to change the function
> would be greater than the current multiple keystroke
> method of setting a specific split.  Since not every
> "split" is the same (5 to 25 KHz on phone vs. 1 to 5
> on CW in most cases) is useful only on one mode and
> only if the preset value happens to match the other
> station's offset.
>
> 73,
>
>   ... Joe, W4TV
>
>
>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: elecraft-bounces at mailman.qth.net
>> [mailto:elecraft-bounces at mailman.qth.net] On Behalf Of Ian
>> White GM3SEK
>> Sent: Monday, February 16, 2009 3:28 AM
>> To: elecraft at mailman.qth.net
>> Subject: Re: [Elecraft] Feature request
>>
>>
>> W0FK wrote:
>> >
>> >Having a "quick split" feature would be great! My IC-7800
>> has that, and
>> >I miss it on the K3. Hold split, enter the "up" split
>> frequency (up 1,
>> >up 5, etc.) and the seconnd VFO is there. No counting or adding.
>> >
>>
>> "Quick split" - otherwise known as "auto split" or "pileup
>> split" - is
>> an option that has been available in serious transceivers for almost
>> twenty years.
>>
>> If this option was available and selected, then holding SPLIT would
>> automate the following sequence which presently has to be
>> done manually:
>>
>> 1. Double-tap A>B (reset VFO B, and sub-rx if present, to a
>> known state)
>>
>> 2. Hold SPLIT.
>>
>> 3. Tune VFO B away from VFO A by a selected amount (+/- in
>> 1kHz steps,
>> either by pre-selection or 'on the fly' - but the latter
>> would require
>> extensive error trapping).
>>
>> 4. Turn sub-rx on (if it wasn't already on).
>>
>> 5. Disable TX on VFO A frequency until SPLIT is canceled
>> (error trapping
>> for the A/B, REV and A>B buttons).
>>
>> At present this whole sequence relies on the operator doing all the
>> right things, and then continuing not to do any wrong things.  Errors
>> are punished by major embarrassment (literally, world-class).
>>
>> Nevertheless, this function should only be an OPTION. It will not be
>> needed by anyone who never works a pileup, is never in a hurry and/or
>> never makes a mistake.
>>
>>
>>
>> -- 
>>
>> 73 from Ian GM3SEK
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