[Elecraft] P3 - Waterfall Marker?

[Steve Glickstein]

Try Fixed/Tracking and see if that helps.

73, Steve W4FMD


On 11/4/2015 12:32 PM, Steve Ellington wrote:
> Paul et al....
> "Freeze" locks up everything including the marker so how does that help?
>
> When searching for signals we might see one on the waterfall that is half
> way down the screen. We want to mark, click or do something to get us
> exactly on frequency so we can either wait for the signal to return or try
> calling QRZ however there doesn't seem to be a way to get on frequency
> other than a rough guess.
>
> At first when you mentioned "freeze" I was excited but now I find that
> using freeze makes the situation even worse since nothing responds. I'm
> just looking at a locked up system!
>
> The marker needs to be independent of the displayed material....Like a
> mouse on virtually any other SDR software.
> Is that something Elecraft can do or is it impossible with this hardware
> configuration?
>
> Thanks
> Steve N4LQ
>
> On Wed, Nov 4, 2015 at 11:49 AM, Paul Saffren N6HZ <pauls at elecraft.com>
> wrote:
>
>> Hi Steve,
>>
>> That's how it works.  If you don't want the signal to roll off the bottom
>> of
>> the screen, use Freeze to stop the screen from updating or turn averaging
>> on
>> to slow the screen updates and provide more history.
>>
>> Kind regards,
>>
>> Paul
>>
>>
>>
>>
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