[Elecraft] Pigknob

[Nick Garner]

Something I discovered at Dayton is I probably shouldn't have called that
switched mode in the encoder Fast Tuning Mode.  I should have called it
Alternate Tuning Mode or something similar.

I was asked several times, "Can I tune RIT with this?"  After the third
person asked, we tried it.  Every switch/function on the knob is
configurable including the commands that are sent when the encoder pulses.
 The fast tuning mode is toggled on/off with a push of the knob to activate
the switch built into the encoder.  We changed the fast clockwise command
to RIT Up (RU;) and the fast counter-clockwise command to RIT Down (RD;)
and then we configured one of the push buttons for RIT Clear (RC;).  In one
tuning state VFO A would tune up/down, when the push button in the knob was
pressed to toggle to the alternate state, we could tune RIT up/down and at
anytime could push the RIT Clear button to reset the RIT offset.

73,
Nick


On Wed, May 22, 2013 at 4:51 AM, AB1DD <ab1dd at arrl.net> wrote:

> Got a PigKnob yesterday. Works great! You can tune at one speed, push the
> knob and tune faster. This is all easily reprogrammed. The 8 buttons also
> can be easily reprogrammed with whatever you want. I set one to do a split
> 5 up, and another to normalize. The knob is smooth to tune, the whole thing
> is well made. The interfaces are on a separate board that can be mounted
> behind the K3,if you want, and there is just one small ribbon cable to the
> knob itself. The only issue I had was the piggy wanted to explore the table
> top, but 4 stick on rubber feet took care of that.
> I'm happy!
>
> 73,
> Carl
> AB1DD
>
> Resistance is futile.
> (don't know about reactance, though)
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