How to prevent accidental Frequency-Changes?

[Martin-2]

Elecrafters,
when you are on a Frequency working someone or calling , it may happen
that you accidently touch the RIT-Knob and --poof-- the qrg is gone.
Even if VFO is locked.

Very bad in a contest when you are running.

To prevent this, I switch on RIT (if i don't forget).

What do *you* do to prevent this?

What did i miss?

Martin

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[Julian, G4ILO]

DM4iM wrote

Elecrafters,
when you are on a Frequency working someone or calling , it may happen
that you accidently touch the RIT-Knob and --poof-- the qrg is gone.
Even if VFO is locked.

Very bad in a contest when you are running.

To prevent this, I switch on RIT (if i don't forget).

What do *you* do to prevent this?

What did i miss?

Wayne has said this is on the list to be fixed. In the meantime you can disable the option to use RIT for tuning.

[Bill W4ZV]

DM4iM wrote

Elecrafters,
when you are on a Frequency working someone or calling , it may happen
that you accidently touch the RIT-Knob and --poof-- the qrg is gone.
Even if VFO is locked.

Very bad in a contest when you are running.

To prevent this, I switch on RIT (if i don't forget).

What do *you* do to prevent this?

I run in SPLIT mode.  TX freq is LOCKed on VFOB and RX freq tuned on VFOA.  I like the large knob for tuning and it's nowhere close to the RIT knob (which I never use anyway).  I've done this for ~30 years starting with the TS-930S, FT1000MP, Orion and now K3.  

73,  Bill

[Mike-39]

DM4iM wrote:

>> Elecrafters,
>> when you are on a Frequency working someone or calling , it may happen
>> that you accidently touch the RIT-Knob and --poof-- the qrg is gone.
>> Even if VFO is locked.
>>
>> Very bad in a contest when you are running.
>>
>> To prevent this, I switch on RIT (if i don't forget).
>>
>> What do *you* do to prevent this?
>>    

Am I missing something? How about turning off RIT?

Mike NF4L
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[wayne burdick]

Just turn off CONFIG:VFO OFS so the offset control can't change the  
VFO frequency.

73,
Wayne

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On Oct 16, 2009, at 12:13 AM, DM4iM <[hidden email]> wrote:

> Elecrafters,
> when you are on a Frequency working someone or calling , it may happen
> that you accidently touch the RIT-Knob and --poof-- the qrg is gone.
> Even if VFO is locked.
>
> Very bad in a contest when you are running.
>
> To prevent this, I switch on RIT (if i don't forget).
>
> What do *you* do to prevent this?
>
> What did i miss?
>
> Martin
>
> --
>
> 73, DM4iM
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On Fri, 16 Oct 2009 07:28:44 -0700, Wayne Burdick <[hidden email]>
wrote:

>Just turn off CONFIG:VFO OFS so the offset control can't change the  
>VFO frequency.
>
>73,
>Wayne
>
[snip]

Thanks Wayne!

Tom, N5GE

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[Martin-2]

Wayne Burdick schrieb:
> Just turn off CONFIG:VFO OFS so the offset control can't change the VFO
> frequency.
>
> 73,
> Wayne
>
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This is it! Thanks.

Martin

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