Re: [Elecraft] K3 Beta firmware rev. 2.58: FASTER BAND SWITCHING; BAND MAPPING

2008-10-29 Thread drewko
Yes, Tom, that works if you stray out of a ham band with the VFO. But if you jump around to several different SWBC bands using direct memory M->V access, they will reassign some of your ham bands to SWBC freqs. You then have to bandswitch to each one and recall one of your (hopefully) stored ham c

Re: [Elecraft] K3 Beta firmware rev. 2.58: FASTER BAND SWITCHING; BAND MAPPING

2008-10-29 Thread Tom Hammond
Hi Drew: I sometimes take my K3 for a visit to a neighboring SW band. When I'm finished SWLing, I just press [A/B] to swap the (still-in-ham-band) VFO B freq with VFO A and then press [A>B] to reset VFO A back to ham band as well. Two buttons, no problems. 73, Tom N0SS At 09:35 10/29/2008,

Re: [Elecraft] K3 Beta firmware rev. 2.58: FASTER BAND SWITCHING; BAND MAPPING

2008-10-29 Thread Jan Erik Holm
Yes would like to see that too. 73 SM2EKM --- Joe Subich, W4TV wrote: Yes, it would be nice if the K3 would spawn a "General Coverage" band when tuning outside the amateur bands and leave the adjacent ham band alone. I think both Icom and Yaesu (in recent radios - FT-2000/FT-950/FT-

RE: [Elecraft] K3 Beta firmware rev. 2.58: FASTER BAND SWITCHING; BAND MAPPING

2008-10-29 Thread Joe Subich, W4TV
included or excluded in the "band up/band down" steps. 73, ... Joe, W4TV > -Original Message- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of drewko > Sent: Wednesday, October 29, 2008 10:35 AM > To: Elecraft@mailman.qth.net > S

Re: [Elecraft] K3 Beta firmware rev. 2.58: FASTER BAND SWITCHING; BAND MAPPING

2008-10-29 Thread drewko
On Wed, 29 Oct 2008 10:20:59 -0400, David Wilburn NM4M wrote: >Sweet. Thanks Elecraft! You must of been reading my mind. It is >hard to explain exactly how annoying it was recently having to keep >stopping on 60m when I was going back and forth between 40m and 80m >during CQ WW SSB. > >David

Re: [Elecraft] K3 Beta firmware rev. 2.58: FASTER BAND SWITCHING; BAND MAPPING

2008-10-29 Thread David Wilburn
Sweet. Thanks Elecraft! You must of been reading my mind. It is hard to explain exactly how annoying it was recently having to keep stopping on 60m when I was going back and forth between 40m and 80m during CQ WW SSB. David Wilburn NM4M wayne burdick wrote: K3 beta-test firmware revisio

[Elecraft] K3 Beta firmware rev. 2.58: FASTER BAND SWITCHING; BAND MAPPING

2008-10-28 Thread wayne burdick
K3 beta-test firmware revision 2.58 (with DSP rev 1.94) is now available. Please send any problem reports to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For instructions on how to load beta firmware, please see: http://www.elecraft.com/K3/k3_software.htm Highlights: * BAND SWITCHING is now possible using M>V and the