[Elecraft] K3 changing split?

Ian White GM3SEK gm3sek at ifwtech.co.uk
Sat Nov 7 11:17:13 EST 2009


Chris M0PSK wrote:
>On a small number of occasions recently I've been working (what I believed
>to be) split on CW, and been embarassed to find that I've transmitted on the
>DX frequency. At first I put this down to senior moments, but now that I
>have had the same thing happen on RTTY, I am increasingly (if not totally)
>convinced that the K3 has reverted from split to unsplit of its own accord.
>Could this be a result of RF in the shack? I would appreciate advice on
>where to start troubleshooting. I am running the latest firmware on an
>unmodded K3/100  #328 with the KA3T installed. The antennas are dipoles with
>a common coax feed.
>

What control or logging software are you using?

For example, N1MMlogger arbitrarily cancels split on the K3 whenever it 
feels the need to "synchronize" the split status between the software 
and the rig.

This has been happening for a long time (way before macros) and I 
usually remember how to avoid it, but it caught me again yesterday 
morning - grrr!


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73 from Ian GM3SEK
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