[Elecraft] P3 and K3 VFOB

[Gary VK4FD]

Curious....do you have the second receiver installed to do this?

Gary


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  ----- Original Message ----- 
  From: John Merrill 
  To: elecraft at mailman.qth.net 
  Sent: Sunday, December 18, 2011 7:37 AM
  Subject: Re: [Elecraft] P3 and K3 VFOB


  The more I look at it, it looks like it happens on all bands where VFOs are
  on different bands but maybe only at those spans.
  Of course one could turn of the b VFO marker until the VFOs are on the same
  band :-).

  John N1JM

  On Sat, Dec 17, 2011 at 2:16 PM, John Merrill <johnn1jm at gmail.com> wrote:

  > On my P3 I can get it to do it at 10, 25 and 50 kHz spans. It will also do
  > it with other combinations of VFOs on different bands at 10, 25, and 50
  > spans.
  >
  > John N1JM
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  > On Sat, Dec 17, 2011 at 1:58 PM, Jim Sheldon <w0eb at cox.net> wrote:
  >
  >> The magenta bar actually tracks the KHz digits of VFO B but apparently
  >> only in the instance where the difference frequency between VFO A and VFO B
  >> is 7 MHz.  No matter what either VFO is set to, if you set the other one
  >> 7.0 MHz either above or below that frequency, and the P3's SPAN to EXACTLY
  >> 25 KHz, the phenomenon occurs.  If SPAN is set to anything other than an
  >> exact 25 KHz (+/- 12.5) the bar disappears.
  >>
  >> Jim - W0EB
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  >> > Jim:
  >> >
  >> > Glad I am not alone :-). Maybe this is normal or a bug. Hopefully
  >> > Elecraft might chime in on this or I will email support.
  >> >
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  >> > 73, John N1JM
  >> >
  >> > On Sat, Dec 17, 2011 at 1:10 PM, Jim Sheldon <w0eb at cox.net> wrote:
  >> >
  >> >> John is correct.  I can duplicate the symptoms here as well and
  >> >> there is no bright center line, only the magenta bar which does
  >> >> move when you move VFO B.  As soon as you configure menu item VFO
  >> >> IND to NO, the line disappears and, of course the two VFO's stay
  >> >> on the same band.
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  >> >> Jim - W0EB
  >> >>
  >> >> Rick:
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  >> >> It's not marker B. I can turn marker B on and off. If someone
  >> >> wants
  >> >> to check
  >> >> it, tune VFO A to 7.160 and B to 14.155 with span set to 25khz.
  >> >> The
  >> >> magenta
  >> >> bar or u shows up to the left of green A. It moves as you tune VFO
  >> >> B. There
  >> >> is no carrier line, however on B as there is for A.
  >> >>
  >> >> John N1JM
  >> >>
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