[Elecraft] Split-mode problem

[Don Wilhelm]

Correction all,

2nd paragraph, last sentence.  I wrote "tap" SPLIT -- well that will not 
work, one must HOLD the button to enter SPLIT.

Sorry for not proofreading before hitting Send.

73,
Don W3FPR

On 11/15/2011 7:23 PM, Don Wilhelm wrote:
> 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.
>>
>> 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
>>