[Elecraft] K3 transmit/amplifier relay

[Fred Jensen]

On 3/11/2011 6:37 PM, Don Wilhelm wrote:
>    Chuck,
>
> Your testing is *exactly* what TX TEST is supposed to accomplish.
> Those with VHF sequencers have an even more complex set of conditions
> that can be tested and affirmed "good" or "bad" with TX TEST.

This thread reminds me of the "need for a fix" I was sure I had come up 
with, and posted ... "Make the RIT tuning rate selectable."  With three 
digits to the right of the decimal point, it took a lot of rotations to 
move the RIT very much.

After some more operation, and a very short email from Wayne, I 
discovered that, if I went to two display digits, the RIT rate was just 
about right.  Now, when I'm in RUN mode in a contest, I set the display 
to 2 digits, and make sure RIT is on.  Works great, no "fix" needed.  I 
know I could have known this had I read the manual carefully ... like 
that's really going to happen :-)

This has happened to me several times since ... something I think I 
really want to be able to do in a certain way turns out to be available 
already ... just not exactly like I had envisioned it.  With today's 
radios, there are nearly a countably infinite number of ways to employ 
them.  I'm trying hard to be flexible and try a few of them out.

73,

Fred K6DGW
- Northern California Contest Club
- CU in the 2011 Cal QSO Party 1-2 Oct 2011
- www.cqp.org