[Elecraft] K3: "Quick Split"

[Joe Subich, W4TV]

Agreed ... several previous rigs in this shack had "quick split" 
options and after playing with it for about one day, the option 
was routinely disabled.  It was simply too easy to wipe out what 
I had set on the subreceiver/VFO B and I could get to the DX 
station faster manually.  

Now, if someone wanted to request that a "hold" of XIT would 
both turn on XIT and set it "up 1" on CW and "up 5" on SSB, 
that might be useful.  If a "hold" of XIT while XIT was enabled 
would move the transmitting frequency and mode into VFO B 
(or A->B would put the TRANSMIT frequency into VFO B if XIT was 
enabled) that would also be worthwhile. 

73, 

   ... Joe, W4TV 
  


> -----Original Message-----
> From: elecraft-bounces at mailman.qth.net 
> [mailto:elecraft-bounces at mailman.qth.net] On Behalf Of David Gilbert
> Sent: Monday, February 16, 2009 3:02 PM
> To: elecraft
> Subject: Re: [Elecraft] K3: "Quick Split"
> 
> 
> 
> No flame intended, but it certainly doesn't take "several" 
> keystrokes. 
> 
> As a test, I set my sub-receiver to 20m SSB and my main 
> receiver to 40m 
> CW (I'm beta testing the software for independent receive).  
> All it took 
> was to tap A -> B, hold the SAME BUTTON for split, and spin the VFO B 
> knob to be ready to go for a split transmission on 40m CW.  
> It took less 
> than two seconds for everything.  It almost seems like some 
> forethought 
> by Elecraft went into the choice of buttons to use ;) 
> 
> I bet it would take at least two seconds to cycle through a 
> few stacked 
> fixed offsets (say 1/2/5 KHz) by holding the split button 
> multiple times.
> 
> For myself, I simply don't consider it an enhancement to 
> clutter up the 
> menus with capabilities that have already been addressed, but 
> maybe I'm 
> just more of a knob twirler and less of a button pusher.  To each his 
> own ...
> 
> 73,
> Dave   AB7E
> 
> 
> 
> Dave - N1LQ wrote:
> >> Sent: Monday, February 16, 2009 1:28 PM
> >> To: elecraft at mailman.qth.net
> >> Subject: [Elecraft] K3: "Qiuck Split"
> >>
> >> It's an excellent feature that automates several 
> keystrokes and gets 
> >> you there or 'near there' in a real hurry.
> >>
> >> If you chase DX seriously have had it  before you will 
> want it again. 
> >> If ICOM has done it for about 20 years why can't the K3?
> >>
> >> For the life of me I cannot fathom how some of you guys obsess 
> >> endlessly about enhancements for obscure operating modes 
> but get so 
> >> defensive over one that is lacking and really needed for 
> serious SSB 
> >> or CW DX work.
> >>
> >> Flame on at my expense.
> >>
> >> 73 de N1LQ-Dave 
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