[Elecraft] Back to VFO linking.

[Wayne Burdick]

>> On Sep 21, 2017, at 10:34 PM, Wayne Burdick <n6kr at elecraft.com> wrote:
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>> VFO A controls both receivers in diversity mode, but VFO B can be tuned separately. Typically it would be used as a holding register for another frequency of interest, or for the transmit frequency in SPLIT mode.
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>> See the third paragraph on page 40 (under “Diversity Receive”).
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> Thank you very much for the replay.. 
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> but my question is - why entering and exiting Diversity does not restore initial state of VFO:LNK  ? 


In the past we’ve had customers turn on VFO LNK because they thought they needed to use this in conjunction with diversity mode. Since VFO LNK was rarely used intentionally, we decided to just turn it off when coming out of diversity mode, since on average it was probably turned on unnecessarily. 

If you use linking a lot, you might consider using a programmable function switch to turn it on/off quickly. You can even set up a macro (using K3 Utility) to do several operations at once, e.g. turn on diversity, turn on linking, set VFO B = VFO A, select an antenna, turn the preamp on, etc. Macros can be very long. 

73,
Wayne
N6KR