[Elecraft] P3 and K3 VFOB

[John Merrill]

Yes.



On Sat, Dec 17, 2011 at 3:05 PM, Gary VK4FD <garyvk4fd at gmail.com> wrote:

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> Curious....do you have the second receiver installed to do this?
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> Gary
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> ----- Original Message -----
> *From:* John Merrill <johnn1jm at gmail.com>
> *To:* elecraft at mailman.qth.net
> *Sent:* Sunday, December 18, 2011 7:37 AM
> *Subject:* Re: [Elecraft] P3 and K3 VFOB
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> 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
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> John N1JM
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> On Sat, Dec 17, 2011 at 2:16 PM, John Merrill <johnn1jm at gmail.com> wrote:
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> > On my P3 I can get it to do it at 10, 25 and 50 kHz spans. It will also
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> > John N1JM
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> > On Sat, Dec 17, 2011 at 1:58 PM, Jim Sheldon <w0eb at cox.net> wrote:
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> >> 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
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> >> 7.0 MHz either above or below that frequency, and the P3's SPAN to
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> >> 25 KHz, the phenomenon occurs.  If SPAN is set to anything other than an
> >> exact 25 KHz (+/- 12.5) the bar disappears.
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> >> > 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
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> >> > On Sat, Dec 17, 2011 at 1:10 PM, Jim Sheldon <w0eb at cox.net> wrote:
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> >> >> 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
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> >> >> Jim - W0EB
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> >> >> It's not marker B. I can turn marker B on and off. If someone
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> >> >> it, tune VFO A to 7.160 and B to 14.155 with span set to 25khz.
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> >> >> bar or u shows up to the left of green A. It moves as you tune VFO
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> >> >> is no carrier line, however on B as there is for A.
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> >> >> John N1JM
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