[Elecraft] Workaround for providing automatic SSB < > CW VFO offset

[Bill W5WVO]

I have discovered one "gotcha" in my workaround, and that is the inability to 
lock the "B" VFO knob -- the KNOB, not the VFO -- because if you accidentally 
touch it, you lose the 700 Hz offset. I've been training myself not to touch it, 
but it would be nice if there was a way to lock it down so it wouldn't do 
anything. Removing the knob and epoxying the shaft seems a little extreme. ;-) 
Perhaps a function that does this could be implemented that could be invoked 
from one of the PF function buttons.

Of course, all of this is moot if the VFO mode-switching behavior gets fixed so 
it works correctly in the first place. I have faith that Wayne will eventually 
get to it. But the Elecraft folk do tend to respond to the squeakiest wheel 
first, so if this behavior is at all important to you, please let Wayne know. 
Otherwise he will continue to think I'm the only nutcase who cares about it. :-)

While we're on the subject -- Is there anyone else here besides me who thinks 
that the "normal" CW tuning behavior should reflect the default SSB sideband for 
a given frequency band? In other words, instead of always tuning like LSB, the 
"CW" mode would tune like LSB on 160, 80, and 40, and would tune like USB on all 
other bands. "CW REV" would reverse this default correlation. Seems more 
intuitive to me than the way it is now.

Bill W5WVO


Julian, G4ILO wrote:
> Ralph Parker wrote:
>>
>> Good work, Bill!
>> Non-6m ops don't quite understand the problem, complicated by the
>> fact that
>> "normal" CW is on LSB, making us ex-Yaesu drivers crazy.
>>
> I often find myself wandering around the CW end of 20m in the wrong
> mode, then finding that I "lose" the station after switching to CW.
> So I don't understand why this is being discussed as of benefit only
> to VHF operators.
>
> I have managed to implement the VFO shift when changing modes to/from
> CW in the next version of KComm.
>
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