[Elecraft] K3 auto spot function

[The Smiths]

I DISSAGREE with you completely.  When you use a 100/50Hz Narrow Bandwidth setting you NEED to have the other station Zero Beated or they fall out of the bandwidth area, or become hard to find with the Shift control.

I don't know about you, but I've set my pitch control to a freq. that I enjoy hearing, or is best for my hearing.  If I could QUICKLY and without work just tap a button and Zero Beat the person to the selected freq. that I know suites my hearing, I don't see this as an unnecessary feature. The spot button is used for EXACTALLY the same reason, just with Transmit now.. Why not allow it to do the same helpful thing with receive???

Again, as I've said before, Don't turn it on if you don't find use for it.  Yes, RIT works too, but just as the other person was saying in his original post, HE IS TONE DETH and can't tune in the signals to his pitch freq... that's why he uses the SPOT feature.  This would allow him to have the same simple control with the RIT as well.  
For those of you that will argue that we have the CWT "goal post" indicator, I say this, I've found many times where it either doesn't work well, or it indicates a Zero beat when you are pretty far off.

Again, this is an OPTION that can be used to HELP people.  It doesn't offer ANY negative operations to your radio.  Why people fight things so hard is just wondrous to me.
 
> Subject: Re: [Elecraft] K3 auto spot function
> From: ei6iz.brendan at gmail.com
> To: notforchat at hotmail.com
> CC: elecraft at mailman.qth.net
> Date: Wed, 24 Feb 2010 22:56:19 +0000
> 
> Surely this is an unneeded feature?
> Isn't the point of SPOT to ensure that you are transmitting on the same
> frequency as the other station.
> Nothing is gained by exactly tuning the station to match your side-tone
> pitch once rit is engaged.
> If some guy comes back to you a bit off frequency you can just adjust
> the RIT until the pitch is to your liking. If it's outside the filter
> bandwidth you may not hear him and auto spot can't work it's magic
> anyway 
> 
> just my thoughts on this 
> 
> On Wed, 2010-02-24 at 20:00 +0000, The Smiths wrote:
> > The Auto Spot feature is indeed GREAT! But wouldn't it be EVEN BETTER
> > if you could turn on the RIT, then AUTO spot someone with the RIT
> > ONLY.
> > 
> > 
> > That way once you sent a CQ, and got an answer, you could VERY EASILY
> > just turn on the RIT and hit SPOT.. It wouldn't move your Transmitting
> > Freq, and you would be perfectly Zero Beat on the person sending to
> > you, without having changed your Transmit freq like it does now.
> > Seems to me that would be a VERY EASY thing to change. Of course for
> > those that think this is the worst idea ever, they could simply leave
> > this feature off (default) in their CONFIG: SPOT options menu. 
> > Wayne, don't you think this would be Helpful? I would love to see it
> > added for people like myself that send more CQ's than we answer
> > them...
> 
> -- 
> 73
> Brendan EI6IZ 
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