[Elecraft] P3 on DXpeditions (was P3 and SSTV)

[Jim Brown]

On 4/25/2011 10:06 PM, Ian White GM3SEK wrote:
> Fixed-tune mode is excellent for pileups, except that all the
> information is crowded into the right-hand half of the screen because
> the DX operator is normally listening UP.

No problem.  I use ONLY fixed tune mode. I have the Fixed Tune toggle 
programmed to a soft button. When I'm working a pileup or a contest, I 
tune the radio to the middle of the range I want, set the width I want, 
then hit that toggle twice, once to switch it back to centered tunable 
mode at the dial frequency, the second time to put it back in fixed tune 
mode. Works great.

If I'm setting up for a contest, I do that for every band before the 
contest and the P3 remembers the settings. For DX chasing, I set the 
vertical scale for 24 dB; for contests, I use 42 dB. The only thing I 
need to change after the contest has started is the bottom of the scale 
(the reference) as band conditions change and the band noise rises and 
falls.

73, Jim K9YC