[Elecraft] P3 & marker B transmit freq.

[Merv Schweigert]

You can make a macro that toggles,  my PF1 goes to split and up 5, sub 
receiver,  hitting it again goes back to
normal..  saves PF2 for another use.

Merv K9FD/KH6

> 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?
>
>
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