[Elecraft] KPad and P3

[Don Wilhelm]

Why can't you turn on the VFO B cursor in the P3 menu and use the K3 VFO 
B knob to position the VFO B cursor to the signal of interest.
Once there a tap of the A/B button will swap VFOs and you will be tuned 
to that signal that used to be pointed at by VFO B - but it is now the 
VFO A frequency.

If you have the subRX, you can even listen to the VFO B frequency on the 
sub to fine tune it if necessary before tapping the A/B button.

No extra features needed.  If using the KPod, one of its buttons can be 
programmed to do the A/B button tap, so you don't have to move your hand 
away from the KPod.

73,
Don W3FPR

On 5/12/2016 4:15 PM, Randy Farmer wrote:
> Myself! Having the ability to click to tune to a signal on the P3 
> without messing with the P3 front panel knob would be an EXCELLENT aid 
> for both DXing (especially if you could do it with VFO B) and S&P 
> contesting.
>
> 73...
> Randy, W8FN
>
> On 5/12/2016 2:36 PM, Bob Novas wrote:
>> I'm really interested in the KPad, but specifically for use with the 
>> P3. The
>> K3/K3S already has a nice knob!  I like to use the P3's knob to tune 
>> to a
>> signal and then push the P3 knob in to set the K3S receiver to that
>> frequency.  Most of the time I can very accurately hit as SSB signal, 
>> if I
>> turn the P3 knob to the correct side of an SSB signal and simply 
>> assume that
>> the carrier is at xxx0.0 kHz. But the P3 knob is small and that makes 
>> this
>> hard to do.  I think it would be great if you could do this with the 
>> KPad
>> knob, and one of the KPad buttons.
>>
>>
>> But, I called Elecraft and spoke to tech support and they said the KPad
>> wasn't being programmed to work with the P3, but that this reflector 
>> was a
>> great place to post feature requests. Do any others want to chime in and
>> request this feature?  Thanks, Bob   - W3DK
>>