Excellent! :-)
Bill

wayne burdick wrote:
> Ah...QSL. Rather than fix this problem, I think I'll just endeavor to
> add the desired pitch offset when switching modes, like you originally
> wanted :)
> 
> 73,
> Wayne
> N6KR
> 
> On Jun 12, 2009, at 6:16 PM, Bill W5WVO wrote:
> 
>> Wayne,
>> 
>> This is why I emphasized the KNOB, not the VFO. When you swap VFOs A
>> and B by pressing the A/B button, the locked status follows what was
>> originally VFO B and now becomes VFO A. What we want here is for the
>> VFO B KNOB (i.e., the middle one) to stay locked, regardless of which
>> VFO frequency it is controlling, because moving it changes the 700 Hz
>> offset when VFO B is not locked. If the locked status didn't follow
>> the frequency from VFO B to VFO A, it would work to prevent
>> accidentally corrupting the offset. However, that is clearly not the
>> way LOCK was designed to work.
>> 
>> Bill W5WVO
>> 
>> 
>> wayne burdick wrote:
>>> Bill, you can lock VFO B by going into BSET mode, then holding LOCK.
>>> If the VFOs are linked, this preserves VFO B tracking.
>>> 
>>> 73,
>>> Wayne
>>> N6KR
>>> 
>>> On Jun 12, 2009, at 3:57 PM, Bill W5WVO wrote:
>>> 
>>>> I have discovered one "gotcha" in my workaround, and that is the
>>>> inability to
>>>> lock the "B" VFO knob -- the KNOB, not the VFO -- because if you
>>>> accidentally
>>>> touch it, you lose the 700 Hz offset. I've been training myself not
>>>> to touch it,
>>>> but it would be nice if there was a way to lock it down so it
>>>> wouldn't do
>>>> anything.
>>> 
>>> ---
>>> 
>>> http://www.elecraft.com
>> 
>> 
>> 
> 
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