Re: [Elecraft] Pileup markers [ was Re: Band edge markers]
It *WAS* funny! Alas, funny often gets you in trouble in this neighborhood. Listen: We're all hams. Thats funny enough in its own right, just ask my wife! -lu-w4lt- === Message: 18 Date: Wed, 07 Dec 2011 15:36:02 -0600 From: n...@n5ge.com Subject: Re: [Elecraft] Pileup markers [ was Re: Band edge markers] To: drewko drew...@verizon.net Cc: Elecraft@mailman.qth.net Message-ID: 0rmvd7lbq93r3v2ut8t2kq065vqe6eu...@4ax.com Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Aaw c'mon Drewco, don't you think it was just a little funny. No offense meant. Just having fun. Happy Holidays! 73, Tom Amateur Radio Operator N5GE ARRL Lifetime Member QCWA Lifetime Member If somebody has a bad heart, they can plug this jack in at night as they go to bed and it will monitor their heart throughout the night. And the next morning, when they wake up dead, there'll be a record. --Mark S. Fowler, FCC Chairman, 1981 - 1987 __ 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] Pileup markers [ was Re: Band edge markers]
No. But I would like to be able to define a temporary frequency segment that the VFO would be restricted to. This would be useful for split tuning through pileups: finding the current caller to a DX station or just finding an open spot for oneself. One the segment limits were set up you could just turn the VFO knob without looking at the frequency display and always remain within the pile. As you hit either end of the temporary segment the frequency readout would reset to the opposite end of the segment and keep going, so you wouldn't have to pay any attention to the readout at all; just turn the knob and listen. A sort of manual scanner. 73, Drew AF2Z On Tue, 06 Dec 2011 14:29:53 -0800, you wrote: Anyone else think having band edge markers for the K3 (tone) and for the P3 (visible marker line) a good idea? 73 Alan - AC2K Redmond, WA F.O.C #1851 F.I.S.T.S. #8063 A1 Ops CWOps #35 __ 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
Re: [Elecraft] Pileup markers [ was Re: Band edge markers]
Wonder if it could be a scan without turning the knob, within that corral too? --... ...-- Dale - WC7S in Wy From: drew...@verizon.net To: Elecraft@mailman.qth.net Date: Wed, 7 Dec 2011 10:54:18 -0500 Subject: [Elecraft] Pileup markers [ was Re: Band edge markers] No. But I would like to be able to define a temporary frequency segment that the VFO would be restricted to. This would be useful for split tuning through pileups: finding the current caller to a DX station or just finding an open spot for oneself. One the segment limits were set up you could just turn the VFO knob without looking at the frequency display and always remain within the pile. As you hit either end of the temporary segment the frequency readout would reset to the opposite end of the segment and keep going, so you wouldn't have to pay any attention to the readout at all; just turn the knob and listen. A sort of manual scanner. 73, Drew AF2Z On Tue, 06 Dec 2011 14:29:53 -0800, you wrote: Anyone else think having band edge markers for the K3 (tone) and for the P3 (visible marker line) a good idea? 73 Alan - AC2K Redmond, WA F.O.C #1851 F.I.S.T.S. #8063 A1 Ops CWOps #35 __ 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
Re: [Elecraft] Pileup markers [ was Re: Band edge markers]
Interesting idea but lots of stations actually operate outside their splits or just say up. On 12/7/11 9:26 AM, Dale Putnam wrote: Wonder if it could be a scan without turning the knob, within that corral too? --... ...-- Dale - WC7S in Wy From: drew...@verizon.net To: Elecraft@mailman.qth.net Date: Wed, 7 Dec 2011 10:54:18 -0500 Subject: [Elecraft] Pileup markers [ was Re: Band edge markers] No. But I would like to be able to define a temporary frequency segment that the VFO would be restricted to. This would be useful for split tuning through pileups: finding the current caller to a DX station or just finding an open spot for oneself. One the segment limits were set up you could just turn the VFO knob without looking at the frequency display and always remain within the pile. As you hit either end of the temporary segment the frequency readout would reset to the opposite end of the segment and keep going, so you wouldn't have to pay any attention to the readout at all; just turn the knob and listen. A sort of manual scanner. 73, Drew AF2Z On Tue, 06 Dec 2011 14:29:53 -0800, you wrote: Anyone else think having band edge markers for the K3 (tone) and for the P3 (visible marker line) a good idea? 73 Alan - AC2K Redmond, WA F.O.C #1851 F.I.S.T.S. #8063 A1 Ops CWOps #35 __ 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 __ 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
Re: [Elecraft] Pileup markers [ was Re: Band edge markers]
Well, we already have a K3 scanner but it is not much use for tuning through a pileup. I think manual control of the VFO knob is required when looking through a pileup; it would just be useful to not have to bother looking at the frequency display all the time and keep reversing tuning direction of the VFO knob. Especially for those who do the REV button one-handed pileup navigating without benefit of sub-receiver or P3. 73, Drew AF2Z On Wed, 07 Dec 2011 09:26:23 -0700, you wrote: Wonder if it could be a scan without turning the knob, within that corral too? --... ...-- Dale - WC7S in Wy From: drew...@verizon.net To: Elecraft@mailman.qth.net Date: Wed, 7 Dec 2011 10:54:18 -0500 Subject: [Elecraft] Pileup markers [ was Re: Band edge markers] No. But I would like to be able to define a temporary frequency segment that the VFO would be restricted to. This would be useful for split tuning through pileups: finding the current caller to a DX station or just finding an open spot for oneself. One the segment limits were set up you could just turn the VFO knob without looking at the frequency display and always remain within the pile. As you hit either end of the temporary segment the frequency readout would reset to the opposite end of the segment and keep going, so you wouldn't have to pay any attention to the readout at all; just turn the knob and listen. A sort of manual scanner. 73, Drew AF2Z On Tue, 06 Dec 2011 14:29:53 -0800, you wrote: Anyone else think having band edge markers for the K3 (tone) and for the P3 (visible marker line) a good idea? 73 Alan - AC2K Redmond, WA F.O.C #1851 F.I.S.T.S. #8063 A1 Ops CWOps #35 __ 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
Re: [Elecraft] Pileup markers [ was Re: Band edge markers]
Here is another idea that might be useful in working DX stations in split: LOCKing VFOA could engage a kind of automatic REV function such that moving the VFOA knob will instantly swich the receiver to VFO-B. It would automatically revert back to VFO-A when you stop moving the knob for some user-selectable period of time, say some multiple of 1/10 second. In operation you would tune in the DX station on VFOA as usual. Then select: AB, SPLIT, LOCK. Then start turning the VFOA knob again. VFOA is locked so the receiver instantly reverts to VFOB so you can roam around the pileup looking for an empty spot or the current QSO. When you stop turning the knob the receiver reverts back to VFOA after a short delay, ready to transmit on VFOB. That would eliminate all of the REV button pushing and one-handed gymnastics! 73, Drew AF2Z On Wed, 07 Dec 2011 09:29:02 -0700, Mike Fatchett W0MU wrote: Interesting idea but lots of stations actually operate outside their splits or just say up. __ 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
Re: [Elecraft] Pileup markers [ was Re: Band edge markers]
Elecraft; Please modify the K3 so I can set it in DX mode and go watch my favorite TV show while it works DX or contests for me. That way I wouldn't have to learn or use any skills, watch the P3, turn the VFO, speak into the mic, send CW, log contacts, upload my log to eQSL and LOTW or the contest sponsor. After the event I would be able to have long discussions with the owners of the other rig brands about how much smarter my K3 was that theirs. Could you have this completed before the next contest? Afterall, it would just be a firmware change, right? ;-) 73, Tom Amateur Radio Operator N5GE ARRL Lifetime Member QCWA Lifetime Member If somebody has a bad heart, they can plug this jack in at night as they go to bed and it will monitor their heart throughout the night. And the next morning, when they wake up dead, there'll be a record. --Mark S. Fowler, FCC Chairman, 1981 - 1987 On Wed, 07 Dec 2011 10:54:18 -0500, drewko drew...@verizon.net wrote: No. But I would like to be able to define a temporary frequency segment that the VFO would be restricted to. This would be useful for split tuning through pileups: finding the current caller to a DX station or just finding an open spot for oneself. One the segment limits were set up you could just turn the VFO knob without looking at the frequency display and always remain within the pile. As you hit either end of the temporary segment the frequency readout would reset to the opposite end of the segment and keep going, so you wouldn't have to pay any attention to the readout at all; just turn the knob and listen. A sort of manual scanner. 73, Drew AF2Z [snip] __ 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
Re: [Elecraft] Pileup markers [ was Re: Band edge markers]
You sir do not have the newest beta firmware release. Get with the times! :) Mike W0MU W0MU-1 CC Cluster w0mu.net On 12/7/2011 11:27 AM, n...@n5ge.com wrote: Elecraft; Please modify the K3 so I can set it in DX mode and go watch my favorite TV show while it works DX or contests for me. That way I wouldn't have to learn or use any skills, watch the P3, turn the VFO, speak into the mic, send CW, log contacts, upload my log to eQSL and LOTW or the contest sponsor. After the event I would be able to have long discussions with the owners of the other rig brands about how much smarter my K3 was that theirs. Could you have this completed before the next contest? Afterall, it would just be a firmware change, right? ;-) 73, Tom Amateur Radio Operator N5GE ARRL Lifetime Member QCWA Lifetime Member If somebody has a bad heart, they can plug this jack in at night as they go to bed and it will monitor their heart throughout the night. And the next morning, when they wake up dead, there'll be a record. --Mark S. Fowler, FCC Chairman, 1981 - 1987 On Wed, 07 Dec 2011 10:54:18 -0500, drewkodrew...@verizon.net wrote: No. But I would like to be able to define a temporary frequency segment that the VFO would be restricted to. This would be useful for split tuning through pileups: finding the current caller to a DX station or just finding an open spot for oneself. One the segment limits were set up you could just turn the VFO knob without looking at the frequency display and always remain within the pile. As you hit either end of the temporary segment the frequency readout would reset to the opposite end of the segment and keep going, so you wouldn't have to pay any attention to the readout at all; just turn the knob and listen. A sort of manual scanner. 73, Drew AF2Z [snip] __ 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
Re: [Elecraft] Pileup markers [ was Re: Band edge markers]
Nabbed by the K3 Feature Request Police! And an extra citation for failing to learn any skills! Not my day, I guess... 73, Drew AF2Z On Wed, 07 Dec 2011 12:27:42 -0600, you wrote: Elecraft; Please modify the K3 so I can set it in DX mode and go watch my favorite TV show while it works DX or contests for me. That way I wouldn't have to learn or use any skills, watch the P3, turn the VFO, speak into the mic, send CW, log contacts, upload my log to eQSL and LOTW or the contest sponsor. After the event I would be able to have long discussions with the owners of the other rig brands about how much smarter my K3 was that theirs. Could you have this completed before the next contest? Afterall, it would just be a firmware change, right? ;-) 73, Tom Amateur Radio Operator N5GE ARRL Lifetime Member QCWA Lifetime Member If somebody has a bad heart, they can plug this jack in at night as they go to bed and it will monitor their heart throughout the night. And the next morning, when they wake up dead, there'll be a record. --Mark S. Fowler, FCC Chairman, 1981 - 1987 __ 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
Re: [Elecraft] Pileup markers [ was Re: Band edge markers]
Aaw c'mon Drewco, don't you think it was just a little funny. No offense meant. Just having fun. Happy Holidays! 73, Tom Amateur Radio Operator N5GE ARRL Lifetime Member QCWA Lifetime Member If somebody has a bad heart, they can plug this jack in at night as they go to bed and it will monitor their heart throughout the night. And the next morning, when they wake up dead, there'll be a record. --Mark S. Fowler, FCC Chairman, 1981 - 1987 On Wed, 07 Dec 2011 13:57:24 -0500, drewko drew...@verizon.net wrote: Nabbed by the K3 Feature Request Police! And an extra citation for failing to learn any skills! Not my day, I guess... 73, Drew AF2Z On Wed, 07 Dec 2011 12:27:42 -0600, you wrote: Elecraft; Please modify the K3 so I can set it in DX mode and go watch my favorite TV show while it works DX or contests for me. That way I wouldn't have to learn or use any skills, watch the P3, turn the VFO, speak into the mic, send CW, log contacts, upload my log to eQSL and LOTW or the contest sponsor. After the event I would be able to have long discussions with the owners of the other rig brands about how much smarter my K3 was that theirs. Could you have this completed before the next contest? Afterall, it would just be a firmware change, right? ;-) 73, Tom Amateur Radio Operator N5GE ARRL Lifetime Member QCWA Lifetime Member If somebody has a bad heart, they can plug this jack in at night as they go to bed and it will monitor their heart throughout the night. And the next morning, when they wake up dead, there'll be a record. --Mark S. Fowler, FCC Chairman, 1981 - 1987 __ 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
Re: [Elecraft] Pileup markers [ was Re: Band edge markers]
None taken. (But it won't be a laughing matter when my REV button wear out...) 73, Drew AF2Z On Wed, 07 Dec 2011 15:36:02 -0600, you wrote: Aaw c'mon Drewco, don't you think it was just a little funny. No offense meant. Just having fun. Happy Holidays! 73, Tom __ 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
Re: [Elecraft] Pileup markers [ was Re: Band edge markers]
Some of us Ol Dinosaurs even cracked a smile...:-) Gary VK4FD - Motorhome Mobile Elecraft Equipment K3 #679, KPA-500 #018 Living the dream!!! - Original Message - From: n...@n5ge.com To: drewko Cc: Elecraft@mailman.qth.net Sent: Thursday, December 08, 2011 7:36 AM Subject: Re: [Elecraft] Pileup markers [ was Re: Band edge markers] Aaw c'mon Drewco, don't you think it was just a little funny. No offense meant. Just having fun. Happy Holidays! 73, Tom Amateur Radio Operator N5GE ARRL Lifetime Member QCWA Lifetime Member If somebody has a bad heart, they can plug this jack in at night as they go to bed and it will monitor their heart throughout the night. And the next morning, when they wake up dead, there'll be a record. --Mark S. Fowler, FCC Chairman, 1981 - 1987 On Wed, 07 Dec 2011 13:57:24 -0500, drewko drew...@verizon.net wrote: Nabbed by the K3 Feature Request Police! And an extra citation for failing to learn any skills! Not my day, I guess... 73, Drew AF2Z On Wed, 07 Dec 2011 12:27:42 -0600, you wrote: Elecraft; Please modify the K3 so I can set it in DX mode and go watch my favorite TV show while it works DX or contests for me. That way I wouldn't have to learn or use any skills, watch the P3, turn the VFO, speak into the mic, send CW, log contacts, upload my log to eQSL and LOTW or the contest sponsor. After the event I would be able to have long discussions with the owners of the other rig brands about how much smarter my K3 was that theirs. Could you have this completed before the next contest? Afterall, it would just be a firmware change, right? ;-) 73, Tom Amateur Radio Operator N5GE ARRL Lifetime Member QCWA Lifetime Member If somebody has a bad heart, they can plug this jack in at night as they go to bed and it will monitor their heart throughout the night. And the next morning, when they wake up dead, there'll be a record. --Mark S. Fowler, FCC Chairman, 1981 - 1987 __ 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 __ 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
Re: [Elecraft] Pileup markers [ was Re: Band edge markers]
And now its time to close this thread and move back to our regular mayhem.. 73, Eric List Moderator www.elecraft.com On 12/7/2011 1:42 PM, Gary VK4FD wrote: Some of us Ol Dinosaurs even cracked a smile...:-) Gary VK4FD - Motorhome Mobile Elecraft Equipment K3 #679, KPA-500 #018 Living the dream!!! - Original Message - From: n...@n5ge.com To: drewko Cc: Elecraft@mailman.qth.net Sent: Thursday, December 08, 2011 7:36 AM Subject: Re: [Elecraft] Pileup markers [ was Re: Band edge markers] Aaw c'mon Drewco, don't you think it was just a little funny. No offense meant. Just having fun. Happy Holidays! 73, Tom Amateur Radio Operator N5GE __ 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
Re: [Elecraft] Pileup markers [ was Re: Band edge markers]
Yeah, sometimes we're like trying to herd cats ... and keep 'em quiet. (:-) 73! Ken - K0PP On Wed, Dec 7, 2011 at 10:04 PM, Eric Swartz - WA6HHQ, Elecraft e...@elecraft.com wrote: And now its time to close this thread and move back to our regular mayhem.. 73, Eric List Moderator www.elecraft.com __ 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
