I normally operate my K2 and K3 exactly like I operated my separate transmitter and receiver pair in the past. I tune the RX to the frequency on which I plan to transmit. Zero beat with the TX, and transmit.
With modern transceivers like the Elecraft rigs it's much, much faster and easier than with a separate TX/RX. I run in SPLIT all the time. When I'm receiving on the frequency on which I want to transmit I tap A=B (on the K2) or A>B (on the K3) to instantly zero beat the transmitter to the rx frequency. Now I can continue to tune around using the comfortable VFO A knob without disturbing my transmit frequency. A nice feature we didn't have on the separate tx/rx pair is that we can press REV to "peek" at our transmit frequency at any time and then instantly return to the selected receive frequency. So there's even less excuse for not checking the xmit frequency before actually transmitting than we had years ago, Hi! 73, Ron AC7AC -----Original Message----- ...Of course, in those days there were no transceivers, so tuning Rx and Tx independently was part of normal operation. Everybody knew how to do it, or they didn't operate... Tony KT0NY ______________________________________________________________ Elecraft mailing list Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm Post: mailto:Elecraft@mailman.qth.net This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html
