Help with missing Filter-Control "Shift"

[Bob KD7YZ]

Howdy K3' people:

There's a 6m opening to South America right now. The most I am working
aere CW in the Brazil and Venezuzla region.

CW.

I've been making great use of the filters, my 8-pole matching, and so
forth.

Suddenly I have no control of the upper-left knob. No Shift. No "Lo". If
I push it in, the beep goes butI see FC*060

usually I could shift the filter response drawing back and forth.

If I hold it in, I get <NOR> but still no control

Somehow I also can get a QRQ off or QRG off .. dunno, can't make it
happen every time . may not be related.

Mainly, pushing upper-left knob makes the green LED go from Shift to"LO"
and the width LED to "HI"





--
73
KD7YZ Bob

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[Don Wilhelm-4]

Bob,

Look at the LEDs for those knobs.
If they are set to Width and Shift, you can change the center frequency
with the Shift knob and the width with the Width knob. That is usually
good for CW.
Push either knob and the LEDs will change to HiCut and LoCut.  That is
good for SSB and other voice modes.  You will not be able to cut the Low
a lot, a voice signal must have some content in the 300 to 500 Hz range
to preserve intelligibility, but the high side can be cut significantly
to reduce high pitched interference without a lot of loss of
intelligibility.  The voice may lose much of the 'recognizabity'
content, but communications can continue.

So bottom line, use Shift and Width for CW and Data modes, and use HiCut
and LoCut for voice modes.  There are advocates for using Width and
Shift for voice modes, but when you change the width, you also must
change the shift to maintain intelligibility because both the low and
high frequencies are cut.  Using HiCut and LoCut for voice is much
easier IMHO.

73,
Don W3FPR


On 5/28/2013 8:35 PM, KD7YZ Bob wrote:

> Howdy K3' people:
>
> There's a 6m opening to South America right now. The most I am working
> aere CW in the Brazil and Venezuzla region.
>
> CW.
>
> I've been making great use of the filters, my 8-pole matching, and so
> forth.
>
> Suddenly I have no control of the upper-left knob. No Shift. No "Lo". If
> I push it in, the beep goes butI see FC*060
>
> usually I could shift the filter response drawing back and forth.
>
> If I hold it in, I get <NOR> but still no control
>
> Somehow I also can get a QRQ off or QRG off .. dunno, can't make it
> happen every time . may not be related.
>
> Mainly, pushing upper-left knob makes the green LED go from Shift to"LO"
> and the width LED to "HI"
>
>
>
>
>

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[Bob KD7YZ]

On Tuesday Wilhelm used a Straight-Key to send:
-------------Original Comment-------

> Push either knob and the LEDs will change to HiCut and LoCut.

Exactly!

Unfortunately, I did not write correctly.

I wanted to make "FC" move. I also then wanted to push in and get LO HI"
led's active.

Could not do that. Could not change the shift and I was having a heck
of a time copying the YV5 at times.

K6ja wrote and told me to look at Config"CW:QRQ and make sure it was
Off.

Bingo!!!!!!!!!! that was the problem. Dunno how or why I would have
changed it in the last day, or even in the last hours actually. I was
probably pushing buttons, twisting knobs, in the excitement of working a
Sporadic-E opening on 6m <sigh>

I done it, don't beat me. Mea Culpa

Now, what the heck is QRQ and why's that affect my filters?




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Best regards,
Bob  KD7YZ    Win7-64bit + K3

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