Hi OM or YL, Since you have never given your call or name (or did I miss it in once of your posts?) we have no idea who is the person using "The Smiths" email address. I guess all we know is that since you used Euros to purchase your K3 sub-receiver, you are probably in Europe.
As far as this ongoing thread of the "K3 auto spot function", I completely agree with your logic and the need for such a function. Having a single button to properly center the receive signal of a calling station (without changing the TX frequency) would be great. It would be a very efficient way of optimizing the incoming audio tone to the proper frequency for the user to quickly reduce the K3's filter bandwith. I work CW contests and usually start off using a relatively wide, 500 Hz CW bandwidth. This is done because, as has been noted, many stations will call off frequency. When a weak one calls off frequency, but is still in the passband of the wider filter, having the described feature would allow users to quickly narrow the Width control to optimize the SNR. If not properly centered in the passband, the signal can disappear when the bandwidth is reduced, until the VFO or RIT is manually tuned. I believe that adding this autotune RIT option to the CONFIG: menu would be helpful to us who need to quickly dig into the noise for weak, off frequency stations that answer our CQs. The default could have this option off for those not needing to use it. So, the ball is in the court of Elecraft's great software designers to either accept and implement the suggestion........ or reject it. The topic has been thoroughly discussed. What say Elecraft? Yea? Nay? 73, Rich - K1HTV Cwops #198 ______________________________________________________________ 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
