[Elecraft] p3 fixed mode center does not stay stuck across band changes

[Victor Rosenthal 4X6GP]

What I have noticed is that in fixed mode when you set Center/Span by a 
macro, the change is not permanent and will be lost on a band change or 
power cycle. But when you change either of those with the knobs, the 
change will be remembered.

I use macros sent from DXLabs Commander program to set and reset a 
"pileup mode" in which the dx station is moved near the left edge of the 
screen and the span is reduced. If I go to another band the P3 will go 
back to 'normal' state. If I know I am going to be doing this I will 
manually change the parameters slightly back and forth in order to force 
them to be saved.

Since I can easily send the macro to enter the special mode or reset 
everything to normal, this hasn't been a problem for me.

73,
Victor, 4X6GP
Rehovot, Israel
Formerly K2VCO
http://www.qsl.net/k2vco/
On 4 Sep 2017 23:29, Fred Jensen wrote:
> It annoys me too.  I haven't yet figured out exactly what it is doing 
> and what causes it and it seems like it isn't always repeatable.  What I 
> really want is for the P3 to maintain the SPAN setting and CENTER that I 
> manually set for each band.  I run 20 KHz spans on CW on most bands [30 
> m is at 50 KHz], and if I place the span on even 20 KHz boundaries [e.g. 
> 14020-14040, I'd like that to be maintained with freq/band changes.
> 
> 73,
> 
> Fred ["Skip"] K6DGW
> Sparks NV DM09dn
> Washoe County
> 
> On 9/4/2017 12:25 PM, Randy Farmer wrote:
>> This behavior bothers me too. It appears that if you issue a frequency 
>> command directly to the K3 the P3 will always reset its span limits. 
>> For some reason, issuing only a band change command doesn't cause the 
>> reset. It's probably a "feature" but it's one I'd also like to see 
>> modified. 
> 
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