[Elecraft] LINK uses?

[Rick Prather]

Fred,

Sometimes I will set both VFO's to the bottom of two different bands, say 20 and 15 and then link them so as I tune up the band(s) looking for un-spotted DX I can tune both at once.

Rick
K6LE

On 3/5/2013, at 5:00 , "Cady, Fred" <fcady at ece.montana.edu> wrote:

> Good morning all,
> I'm trying to get my head around the usefulness of linking main and sub
> VFOs outside of diversity mode.
> I think I understand Arie, PA3A's application (pretty neat idea):
> You have Main and Sub on different antennas and there are times when
> working a pileup you would like to listen in a direction other than
> where the majority of callers are from. Say from C6 I might be running
> Eu but have the possibility of mults calling in from Asia. Arie's slick
> scheme allows both ears to switch to the Asia antenna on the Sub
> receiver while still transmitting on the Eu antenna. Neat.
> 
> What other slick applications are out there for linking both VFOs
> without going into diversity mode?
> 
> Cheers and 73,
> KE7X