Re: [Elecraft] Linked VFO's -- usage?

2015-08-04 Thread Arie Kleingeld PA3A
Thanks for your support Guy. I have addressed this subject several times in the past (with no success). I often use diversity in contests (ever since I have my K3, which carries #1255). Now that the K3 runs the diversity form one VFO and the problem of the filter offsets seems to be solved,

Re: [Elecraft] Linked VFO's -- usage?

2015-08-04 Thread Arie Kleingeld PA3A
Don, I know what diversity is Don, and I use it as you describe. It just happens that I sometimes need to concentrate on one channel only to make the QSO. That's where the A-A en b-b come into play. After finishing and logging the QSO, I switch the K3 back into A-b with one simple keystroke

Re: [Elecraft] Linked VFO's -- usage?

2015-08-03 Thread Don Wilhelm
Arie, The K3 may be in diversity, but you will only hear in diversity mode when the audio is A-b. The diversity effect is 'in your head' as your ears naturally pick up the differences between the two receivers and your brain figures out which is the best to hear. When you have the audio set

Re: [Elecraft] Linked VFO's -- usage?

2015-08-03 Thread Arie Kleingeld PA3A
Vic, I have the macro's programmed under F9-F10-F11-F12 in N1MM logger. The response of the K3 to the F-keys is swift. Switching Diversity on and off etc. is not as quick. Do you use macro's for this Vic? 73 Arie . Vic Rosenthal 4X6GP/K2VCO schreef op 3-8-2015 om 5:35: What I do is

Re: [Elecraft] Linked VFO's -- usage?

2015-08-03 Thread Arie Kleingeld PA3A
Don, to set things up, I use a macro programmed in the F12-key in N1MM to copy the freq/mode/BW From A to B, switch on the SubRx, set audio to A-b listening and Link the VFO's. Switching of the audio is done in F9-F10-11 to A-b, A-A, or b-b respectively. Of course I would like that I

Re: [Elecraft] Linked VFO's -- usage?

2015-08-03 Thread Arie Kleingeld PA3A
Dale, That would be a nice work around, introducing another device :-) I am limiting the number of devices as much as possible. Having it under the F-keys is just so nice. I wonder why no one asked for this before. At the club the K3 is really showing off when people use it this way. 73

Re: [Elecraft] Linked VFO's -- usage?

2015-08-03 Thread Joe Subich, W4TV
My microHam box doesn't treat a/b audio in this manner. B audio is radio 2 with its own stereo audio output. and it labels a pair of stereo lines RX1 and RX2. *Single radio* microHAM interfaces do *nothing* with headphone audio. The microHAM MK2R+ (SO2R controller) can be programmed to

Re: [Elecraft] Linked VFO's -- usage?

2015-08-03 Thread Guy Olinger K2AV
The counter to yet another mechanical outside box is that the ability to write firmware and update it inserts another very major possibility, that it can be done in the digital stream without need of extra cords and boxes. To use the mechanical box, we must physically route the audio to the box

Re: [Elecraft] Linked VFO's -- usage?

2015-08-03 Thread Vic Rosenthal
I use the RX ANT button to give me b-b. I have programmed one of the programmable function buttons on the K3 to turn diversity on and off because it is faster than holding the SUB button. I haven't used N1MM macros for this because I don't use N1MM when chasing DX and I find these functions

Re: [Elecraft] Linked VFO's -- usage?

2015-08-03 Thread brian
I really wonder about ab ab audio in diversity. That is both rx audio in both ears. The diversity comes from the antenna. What does the brain do worse in diversity with this ab ab mode of receiving? Since you can't do it with the current K3 software, where is the A/B testing shows the

Re: [Elecraft] Linked VFO's -- usage?

2015-08-03 Thread Guy Olinger K2AV
Respectfully, This is not an issue of definition. I'm sure everyone agrees that on-purpose listening to A-A is not diversity. What they are talking about is a situational coping mechanism when using diversity as the main listening mode in a contest. This occurs in diversity mode when one ear has

Re: [Elecraft] Linked VFO's -- usage?

2015-08-03 Thread Don Wilhelm
Guy, Being 'old fashioned', I would build a small box with 2 toggle switches to do that function (assuming I wanted it). That would allow quick determination of which audio goes into which ear. left ear receives either A or b, and the other switch does the same for the right ear. Yes, I

Re: [Elecraft] Linked VFO's -- usage?

2015-08-02 Thread Edward R Cole
@mailman.qth.net elecraft@mailman.qth.net Subject: Re: [Elecraft] Linked VFO's -- usage? Arie, When in diversity, normally both the SubRX and the Main RX are controlled by VFO A. You must be in SPLIT to do what you are doing. Is that true? 73, Don W3FPR 73, Ed - KL7UW http://www.kl7uw.com

Re: [Elecraft] Linked VFO's -- usage?

2015-08-02 Thread Vic Rosenthal 4X6GP/K2VCO
What I do is switch antenna connections. My secondary antenna is connected to both the RX ANT and the sub's BNC input. So I can listen to the main + secondary antennas in diversity mode, just the main antenna with diversity off, or just the secondary antenna (regardless of whether diversity

Re: [Elecraft] Linked VFO's -- usage?

2015-08-02 Thread Arie Kleingeld PA3A
Hi all, I might be one of few people who use the Linked VFO's in diversity, not that I want to, but because I have to. When listening to diversity I am stuck with the L-MIX-R setting to A-b. Some times I want to switch from A-b to A-A or b-b and back again. It is used when I need to

Re: [Elecraft] Linked VFO's -- usage?

2015-08-02 Thread Don Wilhelm
Arie, When in diversity, normally both the SubRX and the Main RX are controlled by VFO A. You must be in SPLIT to do what you are doing. Is that true? 73, Don W3FPR On 8/2/2015 10:34 AM, Arie Kleingeld PA3A wrote: Hi all, I might be one of few people who use the Linked VFO's in diversity,

Re: [Elecraft] Linked VFO's -- usage?

2015-08-02 Thread d...@lightstream.net
Arie, Haven't drawn this out, but couldn't you accomplish your headphone audio routing requirement via a simple outboard switch or pair of switches mounted in a small box? 73, Dale WA8SRA Hi all, I might be one of few people who use the Linked VFO's in diversity, not that I want to, but

Re: [Elecraft] Linked VFO's -- usage?

2015-08-01 Thread Dave New, N8SBE
Operating split on 10M on the FM repeaters. Original Message Subject: [Elecraft] Linked VFO's -- usage? From: Cady, Fred fc...@ece.montana.edu Date: Sat, August 01, 2015 4:05 pm To: elecraft@mailman.qth.net elecraft@mailman.qth.net Hi All, In the current K3 firmware (going back

[Elecraft] Linked VFO's -- usage?

2015-08-01 Thread Cady, Fred
Hi All, In the current K3 firmware (going back a few versions) you can link VFO A and B with the CONFIG:VFO LNK menu. You used to get them linked by holding SUB, but now that turns on diversity. A good change. Linked VFOs is not diversity, in which VFO A controls the main and sub receivers

Re: [Elecraft] Linked VFO's -- usage?

2015-08-01 Thread Gary
To: elecraft@mailman.qth.net elecraft@mailman.qth.net Subject: [Elecraft] Linked VFO's -- usage? Hi All, In the current K3 firmware (going back a few versions) you can link VFO A and B with the CONFIG:VFO LNK menu. You used to get them linked by holding SUB, but now that turns on diversity. A good

Re: [Elecraft] Linked VFO's -- usage?

2015-08-01 Thread Wayne Burdick
. Original Message Subject: [Elecraft] Linked VFO's -- usage? From: Cady, Fred fc...@ece.montana.edu Date: Sat, August 01, 2015 4:05 pm To: elecraft@mailman.qth.net elecraft@mailman.qth.net Hi All, In the current K3 firmware (going back a few versions) you can link VFO A and B