[Elecraft] P3 & marker B transmit freq.

[bill conkling]

No, not intuitive.

MKR B is the VFO B frequency.  Often one wants to listen on the B frequency.  It may be on another band.
SPLIT is a special case, not the norm.

...bill nr4c

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Gary Smith <Gary at ka1j.com> wrote:

>Reading the P3 screen I see a station transmitting. I use Marker A 
>(Green) to pin me on that desired station as soon as I tap the knob 
>to QSY me to a desired signal.
>
>I listen to the station and they say UP so I know to hold in the MKR 
>button to activate B ((Magenta) I see where the last transmission is 
>and I place the Magenta marker at that location and tap: The Sub Rx 
>goes to that frequency where the DX was last listening but sub is not 
>engaged, it just sits on that frequency and does nothing with it.
>
>Problem is that if I don't then reach over and manually hold the 
>split button on the K3 itself to have the K3 transmit on the DX 
>listening frequency, I'll still keep transmitting on the DX transmit 
>frequency because the K3 will not have gone split; its as if the 
>procedure is halted half way and it shouldn't function this way, its 
>not intuitive.
>
>If I'm going to the effort to engage Marker B to QSY its because I 
>want to transmit on the Marker B frequency. What do I have to the do 
>differently to force the K3 go split to transmit on the B freq when I 
>tap on MKR B? 
>
>Thanks,
>
>Gary
>KA1J
>
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