[Elecraft] P3: Span limits move when changing bands

[Randy Farmer]

First sent this to Skip rather than the list...

> This appears to have been a problem from the time of the introduction 
> of the P3. It seems to be triggered when a frequency command is issued 
> to the radio via the P3 comm port. Is there any hope on the horizon 
> for curing this extremely annoying "feature"? There's absolutely NO 
> reason for the P3 to decide to change the span limits by itself once 
> they've been set up on a band. Maybe if we complain every couple of 
> months someone at Elecraft will take notice and get it fixed.
>
> 73...
> Randy, W8FN
>
> On 8/31/2018 5:07 PM, Fred Jensen wrote:
>> FW: 1.60
>> Fixed Tune mode
>> No SVGA
>> Connected to K3 RS-232 serial port
>>
>> The "span window" on my P3 will often move up by exactly 5 KHz when I 
>> change bands.  For example, on 40 with a 20 KHz span and the span 
>> window going from 7020 to 7040, if I go to another band and then come 
>> back to 40, the span will now be 7025 to 7045.  Is this normal?  Have 
>> I missed a menu option?
>>
>> It does this most of the time, sometimes the span window stays put 
>> where I left it.  I think it has some connection to where in the span 
>> window the cursor is, but so far, I haven't been able to reverse 
>> engineer that.  I'd really like it to retain whatever span window 
>> limits I've set for each band.
>>
>> 73,
>>
>> Fred ["Skip"] K6DGW
>> Sparks NV DM09dn
>> Washoe County
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