[Elecraft] PX3 Fixed Tune Mode

[Fred Jensen]

Ummm ... technically, that could be done.  However, given that anything 
"looking odd, even for a moment", such as the spectrum trace jumping a 
little on tuning in tracking mode seems to provoke a huge number of 
potential solutions to a non-problem, I really doubt Elecraft is going 
there.  And I doubt "operators would get used to it" either. :-))

Fixed Track solves the problem.  On a slightly different subject, I've 
never been able to get used to the Half-screen Shift when tuning off of 
one or the other edge, and yet I know a number of people who use it just 
fine.  I'm a full-screen guy, it fits my mental picture of what's 
happening.  To each his own, at least we have choices.

73,

Fred K6DGW
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On 2/20/2015 6:00 PM, Walter Underwood wrote:
> On Feb 20, 2015, at 3:08 PM, Fred Jensen <k6dgw at foothill.net> wrote:
>> […] Averaging tends to suppress noise and can make weak signals
>> stand out better.  Averaging would work in Tracking mode except
>> that every time you tuned ... even 1 Hz ... the averaging would
>> have to start over.  Someone asked about this not long ago, his
>> spectrum "jumped" every time he tuned.
>
> It does start over, but it doesn’t have to. It could keep the
> averaged data for the portion that used to be in the window and build
> up an average for the new portion. It would look odd for a moment,
> but operators would get used to it.