[Elecraft] K3/N1MM, freq jumps etc in CQ WW CW

[Guy Olinger K2AV]

Sounds like you have the subRX. If you don't, ignore the rest of this
post. But assuming you do, the sudden frequency appearance has nothing
to do with the K3, all in MM logger. Check your setting in N1MM+ for:

Config tab: Sub receiver always on.

If you have "Sub rx always on" checked, if you have turned sub RX off
and are listening to the main RX with both ears, in response to
various events MM will turn the subRX back on at whatever frequency is
on the "B" display. This will remove the main RX from your right ear
substituting whatever is on the sub RX, which in a contest is just as
likely to be CQ as anything.

If you decide to go single RX at any point, remember to uncheck that
config tab entry.

Also there are keyboard shortcuts that when accidentally hit will
cause issues. Have a look at

  http://n1mm.hamdocs.com/tiki-index.php?page=Key+Assignments+-+Keyboard+Shortcuts

In particular look at Alt F12 in paragraph 3.5

In a lot of ways MM and the K3 have similar philosophical bents. MM is
rich with options that well serve many people with preferences or
special needs. The K3 does as well.

This leaves the newby or the slow learner (like me) with the
unenviable task of encountering these flexibilities without warning or
understanding, all appearing as if the gods have gone mad in the
radio.

The reason it only took me six months to get used to my K3 was because
it took me 2 years to get used to my K2, the two having some
similarities in menu/operational philosophy.

I've been using MM for six or seven years and I'm still getting used
to it. I'm disadvantaged in this regard because I had TRLog imprinted
on my neurons, which may never go away. Everything new anybody does to
anything usually leaves me in the lurch wondering what is broke this
time. Then I remember my own mantra ... It's almost never in the K3
... and save myself a lot of grief by looking elsewhere.

Totally empathize with your experience. You almost certainly will get
used to it all faster than I did.

73, Guy K2AV

> Am 01.12.2015 um 22:39 schrieb Ignacy:
>>
>> Generally K3 worked very well. But I would like to report some problems.
>> This is with N1MM+
>>
>> I interrupt a transmission with ESC. Periodically, I seem to hear
>> completely
>> different stations with CQ called on my run frequency. Before I was
>> getting
>> mad but now I know that K3 receives a different frequency than shown on
>> the
>> display. Pressing A=>B button fixes the situation.
>>
>> When running, accidentally pressing RIT or XIT causes K3 to get stuck in
>> transmit. Switching off/on is the only solution. I am wondering whether
>> most
>> of the buttons can be make inactive in TX.
>>
>> Ignacy, NO9E