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 >> >> > ______________________________________________________________ > 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