[Elecraft] Quick Split revisited (John Lawrence W1QS)

[Don Wilhelm]

John,

I understand your concern.  But some K3 users want to use text decode on 
TX to see how their keying is being interpreted, and if you set text 
decode for both reception and transmit, it does take over the VFO B 
area.  There is just no 3rd place to display variable data on the K3 
display.
'Tis a predicament - some what to monitor their sending during transmit 
and you want the text display to stop.  Perhaps Wayne and Lyle will 
consider making another selection in the TEXT DECODE 'menu' selections 
to decode during receive only, but until that is considered and acted 
upon you may have to alter your operation or simply turn off text decode.

Both the transmit and receive frequencies are displayed *except* when in 
SPLIT *and* the TEXT DECODE is on.  If TEXT DECODE is off, when in 
split, the transmit frequency is clearly displayed in VFO B and the 
pointer for the display TX icon points downward to VFO B.  If split is 
off, the pointer is upward to VFO A, and if XIT is on, you will see the 
frequency in the VFO A area change when you transmit (unless the XIT 
offset is zero).

If you must use text decode when running split and need to explicitly 
see the transmit frequency, may I suggest that you use XIT instead of 
split.  The transmit frequency will show up in VFO A when you transmit.  
If you want to listen to your transmit frequency, just tap RIT and the 
receive frequency will move to your transmit frequency so you can 
listen, then tap RIT again to listen to the DX.  The K3 RIT/XIT range is 
+/- 9.99 kHz which will cover most DX offsets.

73,
Don W3FPR

JOHN LAWRENCE wrote:
> Thanks for all the interesting comments to my "not so Quick Split" post.  At the end of the day I'm still left believing that in the Split configuration displayed with TX on VFO B and RX on the larger VFO A, that there should be a way to always display the transmit frequency and especially while transmitting.  In fact, unless I'm missing something as a newbie to the K3, the transmit frequency is not displayed while transmitting on CW and may not be displayed in the VFO B area while sitting idle.  On my K3 the CW text decoder is in the VFO B display area of the LCD unless I touch the VFO B knob.  An option that would allow the CW decoder to be shut off so the transmit frequency can be displayed would be a fix that might wake me (us?) up before actually transmitting on an unintended frequency.   The text decoder is a nice feature but probably isn't as important to CW DXer's during the heat of chasing a hot one.  On SSB the transmit frequency is always displayed on VFO B thus th
>  is issue goes away. 
>
> The other split method using the RIT/XIT buttons does switch to displaying the XIT frequency when on the air.  I don't like to use this split method because it's too quick for me and I find transmitting on the wrong frequency is a greater posibility.  
>
> I'm sure to get it someday but in the meantime my appologies for keeping the LID police busier than I should.  Being old fashion, liking to know where I am transmitting all the time is comforting.
>
> 73, John, W1QS, ex N6JL, ex K1KTH
>
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