Hi Fred, Waterfall Marker allows you to see and move the marker frequency on the waterfall. If you have CW or data sigs coming and going, you can QSY to a transmission that's no longer active, as long as it is still on the waterfall. Handy for catching that fast but infrequent CQ.
Peak is very useful to characterize a voice signal. Let the other party go on long enough, and you have a pretty good idea of his or her voice spectrum - for example to use for TX EQ recommendations. You can also use Peak to record the highest amplitude of a CW or data signal (sometimes I use this for signal reports in SNR terms). Freeze is a function that I use mostly to keep the Peak around long enough to capture it using the P3 Utility. It's also very handy for keeping a copy of something odd in the spectrum. In my case, I see the spectra of alot of the in-fridge ice makers in the neighborhood. There is PWM-driven heater element in these that puts out a ton of broadband noise and each one seems to have its own signature. So far, I've anti-RFI'd four of them including ours. I'm pretty sure the P3 wasn't developed for this purpose, but we use the tools we have. We all have the same equipment but isn't it grand that we can use the same P3 in so many different ways? Remember the days of hard-coded switches and hardware-limited functionality? I do. 73, matt W6NIA On Wed, 19 Jun 2013 17:14:58 -0700, you wrote: >Please post what you decide. I currently have several SPANs in some and >blank in others, just can't figure out what I want and why. > >For Matt who replied: How do you use the ones you reported? I'm in >FIXTRACK all the time, I don't know what WFallMrkrs does but I'm going >to find out as soon as I send this [:-)], I've never used FREEZE or PEAK >except to try them out, and I KNOW I'm missing a lot of functionality. >This isn't the first place I have assignable keys and can't figure out >what to do with them. ;-) > >73, > >Fred K6DGW >- Northern California Contest Club >- CU in the 2013 Cal QSO Party 5-6 Oct 2013 >- www.cqp.org > >On 6/19/2013 4:25 PM, Chad Wasinger wrote: >> Group - looking for some thoughts/ideas on what others are using their >> function keys for on their P3. Currently running the K3/10, P3 with SVGA >> board, so far so good. >> Thanks in advance. > > >______________________________________________________________ >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 ______________________________________________________________ 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
