[Elecraft] K3 - RIT Tuning Rate

[Fred Jensen]

OK, I confess up front, I could have gone to the web site and searched 
for awhile, but this is easier, and it's late.  While in run mode in the 
NAQP that just ended, I kept RIT on since a surprising number of people 
have a hard time getting on frequency.  Being a really old guy who can 
remember when dirt was young and we had receivers and transmitters in 
separate boxes, I sort of thought transceivers were supposed to solve 
the zero beat problem, but apparently not.

The tuning rate on my RIT was pretty slow, and it's a small knob [some 
folks were a long way off frequency so it took quite a bit of twisting 
to get them into the passband where I could copy them].  Sometimes, some 
close-in key clicks are good, I wouldn't have known they were there 
otherwise :-)

Is there an adjustment in the menus for RIT tuning rate like there is 
for the main knob?  I'd like to make it go a little faster.  I'm on the 
current beta FW release, and the menus are so enhanced beyond what's in 
my book [S/N 642], I'm not even sure what I'm looking at when I scroll 
through them.

The K3 RX is unbelievable!  Stuff I can't hear on the TS-850 just pops 
up from the noise on my K3.  If you were in the NAQP and worked me, 
thanks for the Q.

73,

Fred K6DGW
- Northern California Contest Club
- CU in the 2009 Cal QSO Party  3-4 Oct 2009
- www.cqp.org