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

[Lance Collister, W7GJ]

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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Hello Bill,

I am with you on needing a way to be able to switch back and forth from CW to USB on 
6m, and I also use CW-R for this.  However, I like to keep my B VFO free for other 
things - like quickly QSYing off the calling frequency by just switching to the other 
VFO.  I think the neat way to switch to CW and back to SSB again would be to somehow 
define your steps as a macro and program it into some hot key so you could 
automatically do all the steps quickly and without error by just pressing a single 
button.  I don't know if this is possible with the K3, but I imagine that it is.

While we are on the subject, I still would like to see use footswitch operators be 
able to send CW to SSB operators, like the VOX people do ;-)

VY 73, Lance

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Lance Collister, W7GJ (ex: WN3GPL, WA3GPL, WA1JXN, WA1JXN/C6A, ZF2OC/ZF8)
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