[Elecraft] For you Anti-Scopes

[Wes Stewart]

Then listen in SSB mode.

If you use the following, it's easy enough to change mode to CW if you hear something interesting:





* AUTOMATIC CW VFO OFFSET ON MODE CHANGE: Allows
switching 

quickly between SSB and CW mode without either
you or the other station 

having to re-tune the VFO (often done on 6 meters
and transverter bands). 

First, locate CONFIG:CW WGHT and tap ‘5’ on the
keypad until you see

“VFO OFS”. From then on, when switching to CW
mode from any other 

mode, the VFO will be offset by an amount equal
to your sidetone pitch 

(as set using the PITCH switch in CW mode). If
the sideband most recently 

used on this band is USB, the VFO will be shifted
UP; if it was LSB, the 

VFO will be shifted DOWN.

 

Note: If you make frequent use of this feature,
you may want to

use CW reverse on bands where you use USB, and CW
normal

on bands where you use LSB. This results in
perfect pitch matching

when listening to a CW signal and switching from SSB
to CW. 

--- On Fri, 2/19/10, Dean45 <ebdean at mytargets.com> wrote:

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"Although I operate almost entirely in CW my bandpass is typically set 
wide open. However, this is effectively only about 2 KHz max, which is 
not nearly wide enough when you want to hear what is going on around 
you on the band."
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>

I concur with this statement. I am used to using my ears as a band scope,
and the K3 with the 2 KHz bandwidth limit in the CW mode sometimes makes me
feel like I have blinders on. This limit is not present in the Data mode, so
it is hard to understand why it is necessary in CW mode.

Still a great, versatile radio, but with a curious limitation.

Dean