[Elecraft] Split-mode problem

[Don Wilhelm]

Randy,

I think that is normal operation if you simply turn on SPLIT without 
doing anything additional.
If VFO B is not in the same mode as VFO A, you will transmit with 
whatever mode VFO B had been set for.  Yes, VFO A and VFO B can be in 
different modes.

The normal complete procedure for entering SPLIT (unless you know you 
have the VFO B mode, frequency, etc set up beforehand) is to tap A>B 
twice (once only copies the frequency, twice also copies mode, etc.) and 
then move VFO B to the split frequency, then finally tap SPLIT.

I don't know what the details of your MacLogger macros that you are 
using actually accomplish, but they can likely be created to do all the 
above actions in one macro.  The information about how to set them up 
should be in the MacLogger help file for its end and the K3 Programmer's 
reference for the K3 part of it (which commands to enter and in what order).

73,
Don W3FPR

On 11/15/2011 6:10 PM, Randy Cook wrote:
> I have a weird one here.  Intermittently, when I put my K3 into split mode, with the VFO A in SSB, the VFO B will turn up in CW or FM mode.  In all cases I remember, VFO B was last in SSB mode, so the mode change happens when the Split is executed. Usually, I set the split within MacLoggerDX, my logging program. It is quite intermittent, so I have not used the front panel controls to set split.
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> My K3 is only in CW when I am tuning a remote tuner, and only in FM on the rare occasion there is DX in the upper 10M band.   Both occasions would be using VFO A. I do NOT have a second RX installed.
>
> I sent a console log the the logging software developer, and he was at a loss to explain the problem from an application perspective.  I assume it is in the K3 somewhere, maybe an config setting that I messed up by accident. I am not a heavy K3 user, so I may have overlooked something simple.  I would estimate the problem happens 20% of the time I go to Split mode.
>
> I have decreased the Comm port speed, to no avail.
>
> Any ideas?
>
> 73s
>
> Randy K6CRC
> K3#2051
> k6crc at arrl.net
>
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