K3 - CW Sidetone in Dual Receive

[GW0ETF]

Christened my freshly installed KRX3 at GW0GEI (M2) for the weekend cqww. It arrived just in time (ordered February 1...) and was fitted without incident the previous weekend; the K3 and (qsk) Acom 1000 worked flawlessly for the whole 48 hours.

I found the whole 2 receiver thing an interesting and new experience. Being able to hold a run frequency with pc sent CQs while scouring the band for mults/unworked with the second rx was really useful particularly late on the Sunday when runs got slower. Not really sure if I was using the best method but it would involve tracking a potential contact on the KRX3/right ear, a quick Alt-F10 (N1MM) to swap sub to main (right to left ear..), work 'em and Alt-F10 again to resume.

So here's a question/comment.....to me it would make sense if you could have the cw sidetone only in the left earpiece when operating dual receive. Bearing in mind my position on the learning curve and lack of sleep, I was sometimes losing track of which signals on either side of my head I was transmitting to which lead to the occasional muddle - multitasking has never been my strong point but I definitely felt keeping the sidetone associated with the transmit frequency would have been handy.

Apparently the key term is SMOC - so if it *is* just a small matter of coding I wonder what others more versed in the black art of dual receive think?

73,

Stewar Rolfe, GW0ETF (K3 145)

PS - Nice to work you Hank (K8DD) on 20m; over here 20 and higher were very poor, 80 was terrific but 40m was the place to be.....

[David Cutter]

Agreed, keep the sidetone with the tx

David
G3UNA

> So here's a question/comment.....to me it would make sense if you could have
> the cw sidetone only in the left earpiece when operating dual receive.
 but I definitely felt keeping the sidetone associated
> with the transmit frequency would have been handy.
> >
> Stewar Rolfe, GW0ETF (K3 145)
>

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[Jim Brown-10]

On Mon, 1 Dec 2008 12:50:33 +0000, [hidden email] wrote:

>Agreed, keep the sidetone with the tx

Yes

Jim K9YC


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[Joe Subich, W4TV-3]

> >Agreed, keep the sidetone with the tx

Which puts it in the RIGHT ear when split and both or
the LEFT ear when transceive.  The current "both ears"
makes the most sense unless the firmware is modified
to move the sidetone/monitor based on SUB/SPLIT status.

73,

   ... Joe, W4TV
 

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> On Mon, 1 Dec 2008 12:50:33 +0000, [hidden email] wrote:
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> >Agreed, keep the sidetone with the tx
>
> Yes
>
> Jim K9YC
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