[Elecraft] KSYN3A_transmit_frequency_jumping_around?

[charlie carroll]

Dave:
Yesterday I was getting my car ready for next weekend's Florida QSO
Party and also dubbing around in the MI, NE, SD, and Ontario QSO
parties.  As it turns out, you were one of the loudest stations and
several times I just left my K3 tuned to you while doing stuff in the
car.  I don't recall hearing any kind of frequency jumping/sliding
around from you.  All totaled, I probably listened to you for the better
part of an hour.  Admittedly, a small sample, but there you go.
As a general comment, many operators, even with today's newer
transceivers, have difficulty tuning in stations.  I can't say why...
skill, age, familarity with their equipment etc., but I hear it a lot
when operating from the Caribbean in a contest.

73 charlie, k1xx/m

On 4/19/2015 2:54 PM, Dave New, N8SBE wrote:
> Sorry for the blank first message.  With so many email lists I'm signed
> up for, it's hard to keep track of the ones that either bounce
> HTML-formatted messages, or just strip it off, like apparently this one
> did.  Here goes:
>
> I ran my K3 with the new KSYN3A boards on the MI QSO party for about
> 10.5 hours yesterday, the first SSB event I've done with the new boards
> (prior CQ WPX CW for a couple of hours worked fine, using S&P).
>
> I spend long periods of time camped out on various frequencies/bands,
> calling CQ MiQP and working stations.  I noticed a number of callers
> coming back to me off frequency by a couple of hundred hertz, and
> started 'chasing' them with the RIT, which only seemed to make matters
> worse.  When they came back each time, it seemed they were on a
> different frequency.
>
> Eventually, I had two different stations tell me (without prompting)
> that my transmit frequency was shifting around, and that they were
> chasing me around!
>
> One station thought maybe I had mistaken my XIT for my RIT (nope).  Not
> knowing what to make of it, and being in the middle of the QSO party, I
> wasn't eager to mess around trying to debug it, so I just turned off the
> RIT and managed without it.  I still had folks occasionally calling me
> noticeably off frequency for the rest of the evening.
>
> I still don't know if the RIT aggravated the situation or not, and I
> spend some time this afternoon looking through my Elecraft mail list
> archive for anyone else that may be experiencing anything similar, and
> turned up empty-handed.
>
> There are two things also to know:
>
> 1) I was using the latest N1MM+, but was not using it to transmit, i.e.
> I was using the DVR built-in to the K3 instead of function keys on
> N1MM+.  In CW contests, I do the opposite, preferring to use the CW
> memories in N1MM+.
>
> 2) I have the RIT knob set to do fast tuning (on SSB that means 500
> Hz/click) when the RIT/XIT are disengaged.
>
> One other observation: At no time did I see the transmit frequency on
> the K3 move.  Only the displayed receive frequency moved when RIT was
> engaged.
>
> I'm baffled as to whether this is real or not, but this occurred after I
> installed the new KSYN3A boards (I have the sub-receiver) without a
> hitch.  Maybe the guys calling me had their RIT turned on, and thus were
> calling me off frequency from where they spotted me.
>
> Ideas anyone?  I do have the means to monitor my transmit output via a
> portable HF transceiver, but haven't tried that yet.  I'm also running
> the latest non-Beta firmware in the K3.
>
> 73,
>
> -- Dave, N8SBE
>
> -------- Original Message --------
> Subject: [Elecraft] KSYN3A_transmit_frequency_jumping_around?
> From: "Dave New, N8SBE" <n8sbe at arrl.net>
> Date: Sun, April 19, 2015 2:45 pm
> To: Elecraft at mailman.qth.net
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