[Elecraft] - tuning rate

Jack Berry jlberry at yahoo.com
Sat Mar 3 23:23:35 EST 2012


Kenwood 850 had a good solution - a second, small fast tune knob that could selectively tune 1 or 10 kHz. Not possible for the K3 but can maybe be on a 'K4' wish list. 
It's the only 850 feature that I really miss. 

On Mar 3, 2012, at 9:41 AM, "Jim McDonald" <jim at n7us.net> wrote:

> I would like that too.  I think either Icom or Ten-Tec that does that.
> 
> Icom does a good job on tuning rates, with a slow rate for CW and RTTY
> (switch selectable) and a faster rate for SSB.
> 
> I change the K3's tuning rate for CW/RTTY to 1 kHz and back to 2 kHz for SSB
> with the same with a macro in DXLab's Commander, but it would be nice for
> the radio to do that automatically and speed up as Barry mentioned too.
> 
> 73, Jim N7US
> 
> 
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> 
> When spinning the dial, how about an option that it kicks into FAST
> automatically after a few spins above a certain rate?
> Barry W2UP


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