[Elecraft] Tired of VFO spinning?

[Felipe Ceglia]

This is a very good suggestion, unless you need to use voice/cw memories.

Even when you call voice memories from a software, it mimics pressing the
front panel's button!

73,

Felipe Ceglia - PY1NB
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On Mon, Mar 5, 2012 at 1:08 PM, Rich - K1HTV <k1htv at comcast.net> wrote:

> Jim,
>  If you are tired of spinning your K3 VFO from one end of the band to the
> other, and also switching modes when you get there, you might consider this
> suggestion. On each band, you can easily set up 4 different go-to
> frequencies
> using the four (M1-4) memory buttons. On each band and for each of 4
> modes, tune
> VFO-A to the desired frequency, set both VFOs to the same frequency (tap
> A>B
> twice), select a mode, and optimize your filter settings.
>
> To store these settings in one of the four memories:
> Tap the V>M button once.
> Tap the M# (1-4) button that you want to use for that frequency/mode.
>
> Do this for each of four mode/frequency/filter combinations on each of the
> bands
> from 160M to 6M.  On each band I use M1 for CW,  M2 for SSB,  M3 for PSK31
>  and
> M4 for RTTY. On 30M, where SSB is not allowed, I substituted the WSPR
> frequency/mode info for the M3 memory. You can make changes based on your
> mode/frequency preferences.
>
> To quickly switch to one of the M1-4 memories:
> Tap the M>V button once.
> Tape the M# (1-4) once.
>
> This will allow you to quickly move you between frequencies and modes on
> each
> band.
>
> I hope that you find this info useful.
>
> 73,
> Rich - K1HTV
>
> = = =
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: bill ny9h [mailto:ny9h at arrl.net]
> Sent: Sunday, March 04, 2012 12:20 PM
> To: Jim McDonald; elecraft at mailman.qth.net
> Subject: Re: [Elecraft] K3 feature request - auto-changing tuning rate
>
> i do tire of spinning that know from ssb  to cw.....
>
> what's the harm if it can be shut off??
> pse ...when you have some spare time wayne....
>
>
> bill ny9h/3
>
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