Seems like some requests for ballistic tuning have returned to the
reflector after a long quiet spell. Ballistic tuning is what the JA radios
do when you spin their VFO knob faster; it senses the rotation dynamic and
increments the tuning differently until the rotation speed goes 'back' to a
slower rate.
As a response to the original ballistic tuning feature request made shortly
after the K3 was introduced, a firmware update implemented an option where,
if enabled, the offset encoder (lower right-corner knob) would act as a 1
kHz rate auxiliary 'fast' VFO.
Just like the band-stacking register feature, if one comes 'from' a rig
that had that feature ... to one that doesn't, it's a change that takes a
bit of adjusting to get used to. Some love having it; others decidedly do
NOT. Even harder when you have two rigs and one has it and the other
doesn't!
(The TenTec Omni VI had band-stacking registers but not ballistic tuning.
That was weird.)
I know that the K3 cannot ever have *real* band stacking registers, even
with the K-Pod. There's no dedicated per-band button on the radio so,
that's that. Some have tried to tell me to use other buttons in a
convoluted two-step process. Ergonomically, that's even worse, to me, than
not having the feature to begin with. I always wanted the KPA500 per-band
buttons to be able to enable a band stacking register function on the rig
itself, but that doesn't seem to be possible either. Alas.
With the advent of the new synthesizers and the better-weighted knob, I do
think an optional ballistic tuning feature would be a welcome addition to
my K3. I'd turn that feature on instead of the offset-knob coarse VFO, or
maybe have BOTH enabled. Others would prefer it be left off.
... say ... while I am on the stump, what happened to the other 'board
level' modification for the K3 that was talked about several years ago? I
added the synthesizers and other updates to my K3. Was waiting for the
"big board" to become available.
73 HNY
Steve KZ1X/4
celebrating 18 years being on this reflector, every day
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