Yes I should know that 9 mHz 30 meters instead of 33 meters. Yep...."Glued into
thinking". That's me! Gotta shake that urge. I'll glue this chart somewhere. No
suggestions please.
Steve
N4LQ
n...@carolina.rr.com
----- Original Message -----
From: David Gilbert
To: Steve Ellington
Cc: Joe Planisky ; Elecraft Reflector
Sent: Sunday, November 15, 2009 11:07 PM
Subject: Re: [Elecraft] K3 Firmware Req for SWL band and Using Memories
Yes, that's exactly what you're supposed to do. Reread KB8AP's chart below
for your answer. You're simply glued into thinking that "30m" somehow means
10.100 MHz to 10.150 MHz. It doesn't. And it never will unless you want
Elecraft to do one of two things:
a. disable general coverage tuning on the K3
b. create a whole bunch of other "bands" to step through that includes all
the segments between the ham bands.
Dave AB7E
Steve Ellington wrote:
You key in 9.5mhz and somehow you are supposed
to know you are on 30m?
----- Original Message -----
From: "Joe Planisky" <jp...@jeffnet.org>
To: "Steve Ellington" <n...@carolina.rr.com>
Cc: "Elecraft Reflector" <elecraft@mailman.qth.net>
Sent: Sunday, November 15, 2009 10:09 PM
Subject: Re: [Elecraft] K3 Firmware Req for SWL band and Using Memories
I don't see how you've "lost" any band or changed any band ordering in
your example.
1. you used the BAND button to go to 60m (5.3xx MHz).
2. you punched in 9.5 MHz. 9.5 MHz happens to be within the
boundaries of the K3's 30m band, therefore you've changed bands to 30m.
3. at this point, pressing BAND UP goes to 20m as expected.
4. from 20m, pressing BAND DN takes you back to your last
frequency on 30m (9.5 MHz)
5. pressing BAND DN again, takes you to 40m.
I really don't see where any order has been messed up or anything has
been lost. (Unless your rig is behaving differently than mine?)
I've found it helpful to know that the actual band limits are as
follows (determined experimentally);
160m 0.5 - 2.999999 MHz
80m 3.0 - 4.799999 MHz
60m 4.8 - 5.999999 MHz
40m 6.0 - 8.999999 MHz
30m 9.0 - 12.999999 MHz
20m 13.0 - 16.999999 MHz
17m 17.0 - 18.999999 MHz
15m 19.0 - 22.999999 MHz
12m 23.0 - 25.999999 MHz
10m 26.0 - 30.000000 MHz
6m 44.0 - 54.000000 MHz
So any time I go from, say, 5.8 MHz to 6.1 MHz, I've changed bands
from 60m to 40m, whether I've gotten there by direct frequency entry
or by spinning the VFO knob. If I then hit BAND UP, I go from 40m to
30m. And since the K3 remembers the last frequency used on any given
band, if I then hit BAND DN, I go back to 6.1 MHz, which is the last
40m frequency I was on.
Does this help at all, or am I still missing the boat?
73
--
Joe KB8AP
On Nov 15, 2009, at 5:10 PM, Steve Ellington wrote:
Memories are too complicated and too much trouble. Seems like this
band switching confusion has been an ongoing problem since the
beginning. People, including me, foul up the band sequence by moving
out of band then changing bands. Suddenly, their favorite ham band
is missing.
I'm suggesting that another band, GEN, be added to the chain. If one
wants to play SWL, just go to that band and have at it. It would
not mess up your band sequence nor would it mess up any other band.
My alternate suggestion was to allow the use of any particular band
for this purpose, such as 60 meters or some other band that you
never use. Right now, if one tries to do that it totally screws up
the order and you loose a band that had nothing to do with the one
you changed. I gave an example of this.
Steve
N4LQ
n...@carolina.rr.com
----- Original Message ----- From: "Joe Planisky" <jp...@jeffnet.org>
To: "Elecraft Reflector" <elecraft@mailman.qth.net>
Sent: Sunday, November 15, 2009 7:51 PM
Subject: Re: [Elecraft] K3 Firmware Req for SWL band and Using
Memories
Here's yet another solution.
I have the M1 - M4 per-band memories set up as follows for each ham
band:
M1 - Mode=CW, Freq = beginning of CW segment.
M2 - Mode=CW, Freq = end of CW segment.
M3 - Mode=USB or LSB, depending on the band, Freq = beginning of the
phone segment.
M4 - Mode=USB or LSB, depending on the namd, Freq = end of the phone
segment.
Then, when I've been tuning around the SWL bands and pressing BAND
UP/
DN takes me someplace unexpected, I just hit M>V and any of the M1-M4
buttons and I'm back in the ham band.
73
--
Joe KB8AP
On Nov 15, 2009, at 4:07 PM, John W2XS wrote:
Steve posted:
I guess the only way to do this and not get confused is to fiddle
with
memories or remember to tune back within whatever ham band
you happened to screw up before changing bands.
I do a lot of SWL'ing and AM BCB listening and always return to
the
ham
bands by using one of the first 10 memory locations. This was an
idea posted
a while ago and I still find it very handy. It's almost like band
buttons.
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