[Elecraft] CW/CW-REV config option

[Bob McGraw - K4TAX]

There is one radio on the market that I am aware of that uses UCW and LCW 
thus with the press of a button you have either of your choices.  Your 
preference doesn't seem at all strange to me.  The software that I use to 
control the radio offeres UCW and LCW modes.



73
Bob, K4TAX


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Rich - K1HTV" <k1htv at comcast.net>
To: <support at elecraft.com>
Cc: <elecraft at mailman.qth.net>
Sent: Thursday, April 29, 2010 4:42 PM
Subject: [Elecraft] CW/CW-REV config option


> Am I the only one who prefers to tune 'Up the Band' into a CW signal 
> rather than
> from a frequency above a CW signal to receive it? Apparently not, since 
> there is
> a 'CW-REV' button on the K3 as well as on many other radios.
>
> Over the past 5 decades, I've become accustomed to tuning in CW stations 
> from
> below the signal's transmitted frequency. Not all radios define 'CW' and
> 'CW-REV' the same way. The Kenwood TS850 and other Kenwood transceivers 
> have the
> user tuning into CW signals from below. Using narrow bandwith, a CW signal
> quickly disappears as the receiver is tuned above the signal frequency. 
> Icom
> radios and the K3 are the opposite, where the 'CW' mode has the user 
> tuning in
> CW stations from above the signal's frequency.  Users who wish to tune 
> from
> below and into a signal must switch to 'CW-REV'. This is not a problem 
> since the
> K3 remembers this preference on each band.
>
> However, when rig controlling software programs such as CT, N1MM, RXCLUS, 
> etc.
> are used, every time the 'CW' mode command is sent by the program to the 
> K3, the
> radio switches to the 'CW' mode rather that the prefered 'CW-REV' mode.
>
> Would it be possible to have a CONFIG setting which would allow the user 
> to
> define 'CW' and 'CW-REV' modes, that is, the way of tuning into CW signal
> frequencies (lower to higher or higher to lower)?  If this option was 
> available,
> when radio controlling software sent a generic 'CW' mode change to the K3, 
> it
> would respond by switching to the user's prefered way (CW or CW-REV) of 
> tuning
> into CW signals.
>
> What say?
>
> 73,
> Rich - K1HTV
>
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