[Elecraft] KX3 - RCL REQ when trying to channel hop (scan)?

[Don Wilhelm]

That would be "ReCalL REQuired".
Channel Hopping is different than Scanning.  For Normal Scanning to 
work, you must enter a start and end frequency - except in the case of a 
Live Scan.  Something is missing from your memory channel 17.  Does it 
have an "*" in the label and is it adjacent to the other memory slots 
that you want to have in the Live Scan?

For Channel Hopping or Live Scan, you store the channels in memory with 
an "*" label as you have done.  Then you do a memory recall for one of 
those channels.  The KX3 will go to that channel.  Use the VFO knob to 
hop from one channel to the next.

Are the channels with the (*) in adjacent memory slots? - that is a 
requirement.  You must have a non "*" memory on either side of the 
hopping  (or Live Scanning) group.
Make certain the memory for the channel you start on has an "*" in the 
label.

73,
Don W3FPR



On 1/4/2018 2:31 PM, Mike Parkes wrote:
> I am trying to figure out what is causing RCL REQ to show up on the display
> when I am trying to scan channels (channel hopping is what the manual calls
> it) and not entering Scanning.
> For example, I have 28 memory channels assigned with local 2 meter repeater
> freqs. (*) prefix on the labels...
> 
> Turn radio on.
> Vfo A selected.
> Press and hold Band+/RCL.
> That shows memory channel 17 flashing on the display.
> Press and hold SCAN.
> "RCL REQ" appears on the display for a few seconds, and the kx3 does not
> begin scanning.
> 
> If I dial in *another* channel, then SCAN works. It seems weird that I have
> to find a different men channel besides the one that first shows up?
> What is "RCL REQ"?