[Elecraft] P3 & marker B transmit freq.

[Fred Jensen]

Hmmmm ... that seems like a whole lot of effort to work an other wise 
user-friendly radio/panadapter, but to each his own.  I can spot DX in a 
heartbeat from the pileup on the P3 and of course, just below the pile 
will be the UP Cops and [hopefully], the DX under them.  I finally built 
a PF1 macro to do: A-->B; A-->B; Move B up 5 KHz; Go to SPLIT.  PF2 
undoes it.  Moving my TX freq with the B-knob and P3 is quick and 
painless.  I don't have the second receiver.

Other than holding SPLIT, I don't know how to transmit on VFO B.

I got a Pigknob which is on the left of the laptop with the mouse and a 
paddle and migrated the macros into the PK.  I use the P3 markers during 
a contest to mark a multiplier who has a pile on him so I can come back 
when he's more lonely.

73,

Fred K6DGW
- Northern California Contest Club
- CU in the 2014 Cal QSO Party 4-5 Oct 2014
- www.cqp.org

On 3/18/2014 11:30 PM, Gary Smith 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?