[Elecraft] K3 Programmable Split?

[Joe Subich, W4TV]

On 2015-02-18 11:33 PM, Ian White wrote:
> my suggestion was to offer Quick Split as an option that could only
> be selected through a new item in the Configuration menu, as an
> alternative behavior for the existing [SPLIT] button.

That is *wrong* on so many levels and not even the "big boys" pervert
the basic split function with an automatic offset.  As you point out
the MK V did have the capability but I never used it one time in the
ten years or so I used the rig on a regular basis (it's still in the
closet unused since getting the K3s).  BTW, I can't find "quick split"
in either the TS-590 or TS-990 manuals so it's still far from universal
(or obvious).

To force a choice between simply enabling VFO B where I have already
set it and enable VFO B at a fixed offset from VFO A is wrong.  It
sets up for the very thing you complain about - a user who knows the
operation of the rig in its normal state walks into a K3 that has
been perverted with Quick Split instead of split sets down and can
never get split right because quick split constantly wipes out the
user's own VFO settings.

 > No... what I am "really asking for" is WHAT I REALLY WROTE.

What you WROTE was an "industry standard feature" - The "big boys" use
a second function key or a *hold* of the split button for quick split.
Since the "second key" version has always been available by using one
of the PF keys, you *must* be advocating the hold option.  However,
since split is already a hold of A>B, as a practical matter a hold of
a hold function is a long hold.

Whatever is done should *never* cause the basic definition of split -
"select transmit on VFO B where I have it set" to be lost or only
available by resetting a menu.  Such an option is equivalent to "tune
VFO B with the big knob and tune VFO A with the little knob" - it
turns the user interface on its head.

73,

    ... Joe, W4TV