[Elecraft] KPad and P3

[Bob Novas]

> 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.

 Don - 

Ah.  That's not the same thing. The P3 knob is much quicker tuning and seems
to have a "jump to the next signal" feature. It's much quicker to position
the P3 cursor to the correct edge of a signal and then push the knob in than
it is to tune the K3 A or B VFO.

Bob W3DK

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Elecraft [mailto:elecraft-bounces at mailman.qth.net] On Behalf Of Don
> Wilhelm
> Sent: Thursday, May 12, 2016 4:47 PM
> To: elecraft at mailman.qth.net
> Subject: Re: [Elecraft] KPad and P3
> 
> 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
> >>
> 
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