[Elecraft] P3 question

[John Bastin]

On 19 Feb 2015, at 15:02, Phil Anderson <aldenmcduffie at sunflower.com> wrote:
> 
> Use the third button down and the right side of the P3 front panel - called SPAN and widen what you are looking at. You can go as wide as 200 kHz. That should do it.

I  always use the P3 in Tracking mode, and normally my SPAN is set to 11, which gives me a display of + or - 5.2 kHz on either side of the main VFO frequency. This works for most pileups (on CW, where I usually am) except for some of the recent DXpeditions (K1N, TI9/3Z9DX) that seem to like large splits.

I have my normal SPAN assigned to FN1 on the P3, so I can return to it easily. For the wider SPAN requirements, I have FN2 set to SPAN 20 kHz (+ or - 10) and FN3 set to SPAN 32 kHz (+ or - 16). I can quickly move to the bandwidth I need using this method.

Hope this helps.

73,

John K8AJS
jebastin at fastmail.fm