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

[Don Wilhelm]

Bill,

I for one have to disagree with you on the CW sideband item.
 From day one of my hamming days, I have always wanted CW to tune so the 
higher pitches were higher in frequency than lower pitched signals 
(blame that on my early elmer).  So I have come to relate the audio 
pitch to the relative frequency - which means LSB CW for all bands.

Yes, I know SSB is different, but SSB is different than CW.

73,
Don W3FPR

Bill W5WVO wrote:
> 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.
>>
>> -----
>> Julian, G4ILO. K2 #392  K3 #222.
>> * G4ILO's Shack - http://www.g4ilo.com
>> * KComm - http://www.g4ilo.com/kcomm.html
>> * KTune - http://www.g4ilo.com/ktune.html 
>>     
>
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