[Elecraft] Behavior of P3 Display Upon K3 Memory Recall

Gary Ferdinand alaparos at taconic.net
Wed Feb 15 12:53:57 EST 2012


I should like to suggest that a boundary-condition change be made to the P3
display behavior.    The current behavior I view to be a firmware defect.
 
P3 mode settings are:   Fixed Tune mode.  Half Span.
 
Current behavior:  When recalling a frequency from a K3 memory and that
frequency is off the current display of the P3, the P3 sets the cursor (and
therefore frequency) at the left edge of the screen.  This obscures
everything below the memory-recalled frequency.
 
Suggested behavior:  Since the P3 has no idea in which direction tuning will
subsequently occur, the cursor/frequency should be placed in the exact
middle of the P3 display.  In that manner the P3 is useful to both sides of
the memory-recalled frequency.
 
 
My current workaround is to doubly-hit the CENTER(HOLD) key on the P3.  That
is doubly timing sensitive:  Did I hold it long enough to be recognized as a
HOLD?  Did I time the second HOLD closely enough (and long enough) to cause
the cursor to be centered?   This isn't good.   
 
Another workaround is for me to tune the VFO down in frequency some
arbitrarily small amount and then back.   This puts an approximation of the
proper frequency in the center due to the specified Half Span, but only an
approximation, since "Half Span" is relative to wherever I tuned down to.
 
 
I run net operations.  I wish to be on-frequency with a single button push.
I do not wish to use the other mode of tracking, whereby the cursor stays in
the center and the display moves behind it.  My brain does not think that
way.  The displayed band segment (in my mind) should be constant, and it's
the VFO that is varying, not vice-versa.
 
Tnx es 73,
 
Gary W2CS
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 


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