[Elecraft] SPOT for SSB feature request

[Bill Frantz]

Indeed Don, that change has helped a lot. Now I can tune the 
vast majority of SSB signals on 160, 80, 20, 15, and 10 meters 
while in coarse mode.

I have noticed that some of my tuning problems seem to be slow 
response from the K3 - P3 - SVGA link. I usually tune SSB 
looking at the waterfall on the SVGA screen. There is a bit of 
lag updating the vertical stripe showing bandwidth and the tuned 
frequency at the top middle of the screen. My hand gets ahead of 
the screen. I think this problem would go away if I looked at 
the K3 display, but then I can't see where the signal is.

Cheers - Bill, AE6JV

On 2/3/14 at 1:36 PM, w3fpr at embarqmail.com (Don Wilhelm) wrote:

>One thing you might want to check is your menu setting for VFO 
>CRS (VFO Coarse Tuning).  You could set that to 500 Hz for SSB 
>- it is a per mode setting.
>
>That may not help with your request about the SPOT button, but it may be a good substitute.

>On 2/2/2014 4:30 PM, Bill Frantz wrote:
>>A small item for the infinitely long desired feature list:
>>
>>I have noticed that SSB stations usually transmit on multiples of 500
>>Hz -- For example the Elecraft SSB net 14.3035 MHz and and W1AW/5 on
>>28.4570 MHz. If pressing SPOT when in SSB mode would set the frequency
>>to the nearest multiple of 500 Hz it would quite useful.
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