terry: Because some folks, like me, must have their PC keyboard to the side of the desk (at 90-degrees from the desk) when contesting... this places the rig at my left side, rather that right in front of me, and requires me to either turn 90-degrees (at least 45 deg. anyway) on order to adjust the VFO, or to bring the radio up close to me and at about a 45-degree angle to the desktop so I can readily reach the VFO dial with a cramped arm position.
Using Up/Dn buttons, or something like the Griffin PowerMate would allow us to remotely 'tune' the VFO... having the control right at or next to the keyboard, without having to go into any contortions. 73, Tom N0SS At 01:26 PM 5/14/2009, you wrote: >I must be missing something here. For the life of my I can't figure why >you would want to be changing frequency while transmitting CW (or any >other mode) > >73 de Terry KK6T >K3# 2965 > >Bill W4ZV wrote: > > One of our Field Testers has done this, but I would not be surprised to see > > Elecraft eventually offer something similar as a standard product. Below > > are the FT's comments (sans callsign) since I doubt he wants a lot of > > queries about it. > > > > 73, Bill W4ZV > > > > > > On 2008-12-13, at 13:30 , **** wrote: > > > > > >> This is one for the lowest-priority end of the missing-feature list. > >> I built a box with two pushbuttons wired to the DOWN and UP pins on the > >> front panel MIC connector, to simulate a remote VFO A "knob." It works > >> nicely: tap to step, hold to scan. But, taps while sending CW via KEY mess > >> up the beautiful dots and dashes (dare I say: just like touching almost > >> any control on an Orion II while sending :=). Strangely, holds do not > >> affect the CW at all. > >> > > > > > > I've just interfaced the Griffin PowerMate "multimedia USB control knob" > > with my Mac contest logging program (SkookumLogger). I use it in two modes, > > controlling either the RIT/XIT offset or VFOA frequency. In either mode, > > twirling the knob smoothly varies the K3 frequency at a reasonable rate for > > tuning around a CW run frequency. There's a PowerMate-related issue that I > > can live with: it operates by "pressing" command keys for you; if you twirl > > the knob a lot it queues up all those "presses" and there is no way to stop > > it from stubbornly playing back the complete queue. > > > > I've also got the PowerMate rigged to clear the offset (copies VFOB to VFOA > > when controlling VFOA frequency). And one other gesture does a > "Swap", which > > is tough to explain in less than a paragraph. > > > > Changing the K3 frequency this way does *not* affect CW. I'm now a Happy > > Ham, no longer waiting for the hoped-for K3 remote control unit :-) > > > > >______________________________________________________________ >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
