One other thing you might lose is the ability to get the DX station back
into both ears with one button-push (SUB), which might be useful if he's
weak (like T27A was on my off-band dipole last night). Maybe I'm alone
in finding that I can hear the weak ones better when I have them in both
ears...
~Iain / N6ML
Don Wilhelm wrote:
> Richard,
>
> That is doing it 'the old way', just like having separate transmitter
> and receiver, only better.
> I would say the only thing you are missing is the ability to do
> diversity receive when in that configuration.
>
> 73,
> Don W3FPR
>
> Richard Ferch wrote:
>> After a bit of experimenting, I am finding I prefer a way of operating split
>> that doesn't require the SPLIT button at all. This is to transmit on VFO A
>> and listen to the DX station on the subreceiver.
>>
>> You find the DX using VFO A, hit A>B, hit SUB and look for the pileup with
>> VFO A. You never have to press SPLIT or turn the VFO B knob, and you never
>> have to stop to think which frequency you will be transmitting on - it's
>> always the frequency in the VFO A display regardless of whether you are
>> operating split or not.
>>
>> Assuming you are quick enough to realize that the DX is operating split in
>> the first place, about the only other mistake you can make is to forget to
>> hit SUB, which becomes obvious very quickly.
>>
>> If you are using a panadapter like LP-PAN with PowerSDR, you can click on
>> the pileup in the panadapter display to tune VFO A directly to the pileup.
>> The focus of the panadapter is always on the pileup, not on the DX station
>> as it would be when using SPLIT.
>>
>> You can even use text decode or the auxiliary display in the VFO B window -
>> all it costs you is the display of the DX station's frequency; you never
>> lose sight of your transmit frequency.
>>
>> This all seems too easy - what am I missing?
>>
>> 73,
>> Rich VE3KI
>> K3 #1595
>>
>>
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