Bill, Understood that some only use it that way, that is not my norm though. I chase DX and If I engage the magenta operation with the P3, its to be transmitting on a DX's listening frequency and in all those cases I will be split.
Since 1979 I've never listened on two bands simultaneously and if I want to see what's happening on different bands that is of my DX interest, I use the spot log in Logic 9, my logging software and it compares all current spots posted in North America (my default) to what is needed in my log and displays who, what, when, & where and one click on the spot log & I QSY there. For that matter, it can retain that spotting data for up to a month if I'm seeking a trend on an operators methods. So, for my style of operation to date, I 100% of the time would want the P3 to engage MKR B as a transmit frequency. For the prior 20 years till I assembled the K3 in 08 I used a Corsair II & external VFO; I used it that way as well with the external VFO listening for the place to transmit. Now thanks to the P3 I can see the spots and don't need to hear them and the P3 is a great tool for DXing for me. What I do when I seek DX is so logical to me I can't help but think its common for others as well. SInce the P3 communicates with the K3, a firmware update of either the P3 or K3 to allow this choice of engaging split when you select MKR B would be a genuine asset, I expected it was a given. Gary KA1J > No, not intuitive. > > MKR B is the VFO B frequency. Often one wants to listen on the B > frequency. It may be on another band. > SPLIT is a special case, not the norm. > > ...bill nr4c > > Sent from my Verizon Wireless 4G LTE DROID > > > Gary Smith <g...@ka1j.com> wrote: > > Reading the P3 screen I see a station transmitting. I use Marker A > (Green) to pin me on that desired station as soon as I tap the knob > to QSY me to a desired signal. > > I listen to the station and they say UP so I know to hold in the MKR > button to activate B ((Magenta) I see where the last transmission is > and I place the Magenta marker at that location and tap: The Sub Rx > goes to that frequency where the DX was last listening but sub is not > engaged, it just sits on that frequency and does nothing with it. > > Problem is that if I don't then reach over and manually hold the > split button on the K3 itself to have the K3 transmit on the DX > listening frequency, I'll still keep transmitting on the DX transmit > frequency because the K3 will not have gone split; its as if the > procedure is halted half way and it shouldn't function this way, its > not intuitive. > > If I'm going to the effort to engage Marker B to QSY its because I > want to transmit on the Marker B frequency. What do I have to the do > differently to force the K3 go split to transmit on the B freq when I > tap on MKR B? > > Thanks, > > Gary > KA1J > > --- > This email is free from viruses and malware because avast! Antivirus > protection is active. > http://www.avast.com > > ______________________________________________________________ > 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 > Message delivered to n...@widomaker.com > > --- This email is free from viruses and malware because avast! Antivirus protection is active. http://www.avast.com ______________________________________________________________ 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 Message delivered to arch...@mail-archive.com
