[Elecraft] Split operation

[Gary Smith]

Harry,

What you say is true, I can not disagree. 

I will say that absent-mindedness is the 
bane of humanity and nobody can remember 
all the right things to do, all of the 
time. No matter how hard we like to think 
of ourselves as doing the perfectly right 
thing, some incredibly competent person, 
somewhere, is making a mistake at this 
moment.

Since transmitting on the Dx Tx frequency 
is one of the deadly sins, creating the 
extra step to make it not happen is a good 
thing.

Just today I clicked on a RTTY spot I 
needed, tuned them in on the scope, set 
the VFO to where I wanted to transmit. All 
was good... I gave my call 4-5 times till 
some ass insulted me calling me a name, 
sending UP UP and then another 
ass-relative of theirs called me names.

I thought I was in split with the marker 
in the P3 dead on where I wanted to 
transmit. All was set except I hadn't 
dedicated that A>B button to "split".  If 
in my P3 screen I saw the word SPLIT in 
the waterfall, I would know I was in 
split. Just having a flashing LED or some 
1/2" x 1/4" high below the power  button 
saying SPLIT is just not enough for me to 
come close to being 100% on this.

I suspect most of the honest answers you'd 
get here says people have made this 
mistake. I'm for an in your face option to 
make it clear when you are in split. Don't 
want it? Don't enable it. Want to be sure? 
enable it...

Gary
KA1J



> The real fix is to just pay attention, and read the screen.
> I spent years in IT where if people just seemed unable to simply read the screen.
> It's the same here with the split, people just need to pay attention to what they're doing.
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
>       From: Ralph Parker <ve7xf at dccnet.com>
>  To: Elecraft at mailman.qth.net 
>  Sent: Monday, February 23, 2015 3:08 PM
>  Subject: Re: [Elecraft] Split operation
>    
> >> Or, we could replace the *entire* VFO A display with the word "SPLIT"
> during 
> >> key-down. This would be even more obvious, and it wouldn't mess up the
> VFO B 
> >> display. VFO B is what you care about during split TX.
> 
> Why not just have the DVR say "UP, UP" whenever you transmit in split mode.
> Save wear and tear on the KC Kops.
> 
> VE7XF
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