[Elecraft] Linked VFO's -- usage?

[Arie Kleingeld PA3A]

Thanks for your support Guy.
I have addressed this subject several times in the past (with no 
success). I often use diversity in contests  (ever since I have my K3, 
which carries #1255).

Now that the K3 runs the diversity form one VFO and the problem of the 
filter offsets seems to be solved, this is the last thing to improve.

73
Arie PA3A

Guy Olinger K2AV schreef op 3-8-2015 om 23:29:
> The counter to yet another mechanical outside box is that the ability
> to write firmware and update it inserts another very major
> possibility, that it can be done in the digital stream without need of
> extra cords and boxes.
>
> To use the mechanical box, we must physically route the audio to the
> box and plug in the headphones there. We have to mount the box so it
> doesn't move around. And worst of all, I have to make it.
>
> My microHam box doesn't treat a/b audio in this manner. "B" audio is
> radio 2 with its own stereo audio output. and it labels a pair of
> stereo lines RX1 and RX2. That deals with a pair of radios, not
> left/right stereo audio switching. So if I actually have two radios
> hooked up to it, no way to use it "creatively" to do the tricks just
> with the K3 in diversity.
>
> If I take my K3 anywhere else, like NY4A for multi contesting, I lose
> the function as what I get at NY4A is main antenna, RX antenna and
> power from the station, rather than a double of my now unique home
> station.
>
> Putting it in the digital functions makes it instantly portable.
>
> So, understanding your suggestion completely, and with no malice
> whatsoever, I decline, and still lean to the future with something
> that can be put in a macro stream sent to it from MM+ or whatever. I
> CAN take my MM+ macros with embedded K3 program commands.
>
> Feeding the A stream to the b audio just seems to be too easy in
> firmware, it's already done for non-diversity.
>
> Use of the diversity hold is problematic because it assumes that the
> unwanted half of the headphone audio is in the subRX side.
>
> 73, Guy
>
> On Mon, Aug 3, 2015 at 3:33 PM, Don Wilhelm <w3fpr at embarqmail.com> wrote:
>