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Lu Romero - W4LT

K3 Channel Hopping

No rocks need to be hidden under.

As a former TS850 owner and a current TS570 owner, in addition to my new
K3/100, I would agree that this functionality is needed. The knob on my
former 850 was getting on the wobbly side after years of use for this
purpose... Its extremely handy and would be a welcome enhancement of K3's
tuning operation. My Kenwoods were always set to 5kHz, making it oh so
handy to move inside the band with a quick twist. I miss this feature.

Frankly, I would use the RIT knob for this and not B-VFO. It would also be
nice if you could select which VFO the function would apply to with, say,
holding the CLR button down or even adding the push-the-knob functionality
of the "Control Quad" area to toggle between VFO A and B and (hopefully) the
KRX3 as well.

Left LED flashing would tally VFO-A delegation, Center VFO-B and Right,
KRX3.

I would vote for holding the CLR button to assign control at this juncture.

73

Lu Romero - W4LT
K3 #3192

Date: Fri, 21 Aug 2009 15:09:38 +0000
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Just a simple channel hopping feature such as Kenwood offer on
TS-870/850/690/680/450/440 etc, simple yet effective and functional, no
button pushing multiple times or menu manipulation would be a vast
improvement on what the K3 can do for all it's whiz bang gadgetry.....

My 2 cents worth

Back under my rock I crawl..:-)

Gary. VK4WT/P
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Brett Howard

Re: K3 Channel Hopping

You know you can use the RIT knob as a fast band move knob with a simple
menu setting so that it works like the M.CH knob does on the Kenwoods.

~Brett

On Fri, 2009-08-21 at 19:53 -0400, Luis V. Romero wrote:

> No rocks need to be hidden under.
>
> As a former TS850 owner and a current TS570 owner, in addition to my new
> K3/100, I would agree that this functionality is needed. The knob on my
> former 850 was getting on the wobbly side after years of use for this
> purpose... Its extremely handy and would be a welcome enhancement of K3's
> tuning operation. My Kenwoods were always set to 5kHz, making it oh so
> handy to move inside the band with a quick twist. I miss this feature.
>
> Frankly, I would use the RIT knob for this and not B-VFO. It would also be
> nice if you could select which VFO the function would apply to with, say,
> holding the CLR button down or even adding the push-the-knob functionality
> of the "Control Quad" area to toggle between VFO A and B and (hopefully) the
> KRX3 as well.
>
> Left LED flashing would tally VFO-A delegation, Center VFO-B and Right,
> KRX3.
>
> I would vote for holding the CLR button to assign control at this juncture.
>
> 73
>
> Lu Romero - W4LT
> K3 #3192
>
>
>
> Date: Fri, 21 Aug 2009 15:09:38 +0000
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> Subject: [Elecraft] K3 Channel Hopping
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> Just a simple channel hopping feature such as Kenwood offer on
> TS-870/850/690/680/450/440 etc, simple yet effective and functional, no
> button pushing multiple times or menu manipulation would be a vast
> improvement on what the K3 can do for all it's whiz bang gadgetry.....
>
> My 2 cents worth
>
> Back under my rock I crawl..:-)
>
> Gary. VK4WT/P
> Sent via BlackBerry? from Telstra
>
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Brett Howard

Re: K3 Channel Hopping

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That is at least for quick in band moves. Not for memory scrolling.

~Brett

On Fri, 2009-08-21 at 19:53 -0400, Luis V. Romero wrote:

n7ws

Re: K3 Channel Hopping

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--- On Fri, 8/21/09, Brett Howard <[hidden email]> wrote:

From: Brett Howard <[hidden email]>
Subject: Re: [Elecraft] K3 Channel Hopping
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Date: Friday, August 21, 2009, 7:41 PM

You know you can use the RIT knob as a fast band move knob with a simple
menu setting so that it works like the M.CH knob does on the Kenwoods.

Not quite. I use the RIT knob set to 5 KHz steps all of the time, but it steps 5 KHz from where it's currently setting, and if that isn't a 5KHz multiple then it isn't the same as the Kenwood.

Let's face it, on many bands these days we are almost channelized. The DX calls on 14.195 not 14.196789. With my Kenwood, if I'm listening on 14.003 and decide to check 14.195 I just turn the VFO CH knob and easily land on freq. BTW, the radio knows to change modes from CW to USB at 14.150. And if I think I may want to return to the CW freq, before moving I hit Quick Memory and it's saved and I can return to it with one button push.

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Brett Howard

Re: K3 Channel Hopping

I'd greatly prefer that the knob remains as is and I often call off on
weird frequencies just to try and keep ham radio a little more like ham
radio and a little less like CB.

~Brett (KC7OTG)

On Fri, 2009-08-21 at 19:49 -0700, Wes Stewart wrote:

>
>
> --- On Fri, 8/21/09, Brett Howard <[hidden email]> wrote:
>
> From: Brett Howard <[hidden email]>
> Subject: Re: [Elecraft] K3 Channel Hopping
> To: [hidden email]
> Cc: [hidden email]
> Date: Friday, August 21, 2009, 7:41 PM
>
> You know you can use the RIT knob as a fast band move knob
> with a simple
> menu setting so that it works like the M.CH knob does on the
> Kenwoods.
>
>
>
> Not quite. I use the RIT knob set to 5 KHz steps all of the time, but
> it steps 5 KHz from where it's currently setting, and if that isn't a
> 5KHz multiple then it isn't the same as the Kenwood.
>
> Let's face it, on many bands these days we are almost channelized.
> The DX calls on 14.195 not 14.196789. With my Kenwood, if I'm
> listening on 14.003 and decide to check 14.195 I just turn the VFO CH
> knob and easily land on freq. BTW, the radio knows to change modes
> from CW to USB at 14.150. And if I think I may want to return to the
> CW freq, before moving I hit Quick Memory and it's saved and I can
> return to it with one button push.
>
>
>
>
>
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Lu Romero - W4LT

Re: K3 Channel Hopping

In reply to this post by n7ws

Yes, this is exactly the point. Moving the Multi/CH knob on my TS570 resets the vfo to 5kHz steps from wherever I was previously. That is handy for quick QSY.

Brett describes how I use the feature exactly (nice to know Im not unique!)

-lu-w4lt-

Wes Stewart wrote

--- On Fri, 8/21/09, Brett Howard <brett@livecomputers.com> wrote:

From: Brett Howard <brett@livecomputers.com>
Subject: Re: [Elecraft] K3 Channel Hopping
To: lromero@ij.net
Cc: elecraft@mailman.qth.net
Date: Friday, August 21, 2009, 7:41 PM

You know you can use the RIT knob as a fast band move knob with a simple
menu setting so that it works like the M.CH knob does on the Kenwoods.

Not quite. I use the RIT knob set to 5 KHz steps all of the time, but it steps 5 KHz from where it's currently setting, and if that isn't a 5KHz multiple then it isn't the same as the Kenwood.

Let's face it, on many bands these days we are almost channelized. The DX calls on 14.195 not 14.196789. With my Kenwood, if I'm listening on 14.003 and decide to check 14.195 I just turn the VFO CH knob and easily land on freq. BTW, the radio knows to change modes from CW to USB at 14.150. And if I think I may want to return to the CW freq, before moving I hit Quick Memory and it's saved and I can return to it with one button push.

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Lu Romero - W4LT

Re: K3 Channel Hopping

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Yes, I stand corrected... Serves me right for checking email
and responding at 3 in the morning...

-lu-

----- Original Message Follows -----
From: Wes Stewart <[hidden email]>
To: Lu Romero - W4LT <[hidden email]>
Subject: Re: [Elecraft] K3 Channel Hopping
Date: Sat, 22 Aug 2009 05:57:54 -0700 (PDT)

>--- On Sat, 8/22/09, Lu Romero - W4LT <[hidden email]>
>wrote:Yes, this is exactly the point. Moving the
Multi/CH
>knob on my TS570 resetsthe vfo to 5kHz steps from wherever
>I was previously. That is handy forquick QSY.Brett
>describes how I use the feature exactly (nice to know Im
>not unique!)-lu-w4lt-Except it was I who described it.
>Brett doesn't want it to work that way.Wes N7WS
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