[Elecraft] Back to VFO linking.

[Zbigniew Tyrlik]

> On Sep 22, 2017, at 11:30 AM, Wayne Burdick <n6kr at elecraft.com> wrote:
> 
>>> On Sep 21, 2017, at 10:34 PM, Wayne Burdick <n6kr at elecraft.com> wrote:
>>> 
>>> 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.
>>> 
>>> See the third paragraph on page 40 (under “Diversity Receive”).
>>> 
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>> 
>> Thank you very much for the replay.. 
>> 
>> 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. 
> 

I see :-). 



> 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. 
> 


Yep, that I will do. Just wanted to make sure that it was intentional, not a “feature”.  Took me by surprise - consider mentioning it in manual.. but that the way it works ( Diversity turns the Link off ) is perfectly understandable, especially if that was creating some confusion. 

Thank you very much again, 

best to you and whole team !


> 73,
> Wayne
> N6KR


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