[Elecraft] K3 Programmable Split?

[brian]

Joe,

This is a bunch of baloney.   What you are really saying is that you 
don't like what most do.   So be it.   Ian's proposal won't gore your ox.
73 de Brian/K3KO
On 2/19/2015 14:13 PM, Joe Subich, W4TV wrote:
>
> 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
>
>
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