[Elecraft] K3 Programmable Split?

[Eric Swartz - WA6HHQ, Elecraft]

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On 2/19/2015 6:49 AM, brian wrote:
> 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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