My experience with LINK is all bad. If I'm in LINK I most likely don't know what is going on. It gets turned on in those gray hours in a contest when my really thinking brain has gone somewhere in the warm Caribbean to take a long nap. All left manning the rig is a brute beast that functions on rote. If the solution isn't already a habit, it probably can't think its way out of a paper bag.
Getting caught with LINK one time had me listening to what my foggy brain concluded was an attempt to take over my run frequency. In fact it was the occupant of a frequency about 40 kHz away. I of course tried to operate through him to make him go away, including losing some number of weakies I couldn't copy with that racket going on. It took five or ten minutes to realize that all the racket was in my right ear and the offending run station was not on my S-meter. Then, to get me back to diversity, I had to turn SUB off, and do the long hold on SUB, which I didn't get right the first two times, probably for the same reason I wound up in LINK the first time. And in the piddling trying to get diversity back on, I didn't transmit enough and DID lose the run frequency for real. At least I didn't send the up 40 fellow a flame email after the contest like I did one time, when I didn't figure it out until the next day after I'd had some sleep. I don't want to take LINK away from anyone who likes or uses it, but removing the ghastly SUB-LINK-DIVERSITY sequence of old, with two kinds of HOLD, is a godsend. Thank you Wayne, Others seem to really diss diversity. And their commentary convinces me that some have not been doing sound-stage diversity correctly if at all. Sound-stage diversity DOES require at minimum a separate antenna on the sub RX, even if on 160 this is listening to your 80 inverted vee on the sub RX (not all that bad, the first thing I tried). Sound stage diversity does require phase-locking the two RX. Often listening diversity on two separately oriented RX antennas will seem to improve the performance of BOTH receive antennas. If one's idea of diversity includes the notion that going into diversity knocks down the main RX level, you really don't have it set up, and have a pleasant surprise awaiting discovery. 73, Guy K2AV On Mon, Feb 16, 2015 at 12:40 PM, Oliver Dröse <dro...@necg.de> wrote: >> Note that the SUB switch doesn't even have a labeled hold function >> on the panel. You can chalk this up to our indecisiveness on what, >> exactly, it would be. But in a future run of K3 front panels it is likely >> to become "DIV" (diversity), eliminating the ambiguity. > > And I thought there's no hold function label beneath the SUB button because > there is no space for it. ;-) > > 73, Olli - DH8BQA > > > > ______________________________________________________________ > 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 k2av....@gmail.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
