KX1 for SWL - Suggestion

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KX1 for SWL - Suggestion

Rick Tavan
I've been having a lot of fun listening to shortwave broadcasts on my
KX1. AM detection is prety decent in USB or LSB and most of the stations
are so close to on-frequency that I rarely have to fine tune. I just set
the DDS to a 5.00 KHz boundary and then set up for 5KHz tuning
increments. It turns into a channelized tuner! Only one problem - since
every tick on the encoder is an increment, it becomes very touchy.
Wouldn't it be nice if you had to turn the knob several ticks to get it
to click over to the next 5 KHz step? Then there would be some leeway
for less than pianist-quality fingers. Am I crazy or should we ask
Elecraft to do this the next time they open up the firmware for
something more important? Or has this already been discussed and I'm the
last to know?

Rick N6XI


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Re: KX1 for SWL - Suggestion

wayne burdick
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Hi Rick,

This is a good suggestion that I've added to my list for the next KX1
firmware revision.

Meanwhile, you can switch to CW ("nor") mode and tune in 1-kHz
increments, giving you 5 "tics" between SW broadcast stations, if that
helps. The only problem with this is the CW offset, which is included
in the VFO display only in CW mode. However, once you tune in any
station, you can switch to 1-kHz steps and the offset to the 100 and
10-Hz digits will be preserved.


On Jul 22, 2004, at 11:06 PM, Rick Tavan wrote:

> I've been having a lot of fun listening to shortwave broadcasts on my
> KX1. AM detection is prety decent in USB or LSB and most of the
> stations are so close to on-frequency that I rarely have to fine tune.
> I just set the DDS to a 5.00 KHz boundary and then set up for 5KHz
> tuning increments. It turns into a channelized tuner! Only one problem
> - since every tick on the encoder is an increment, it becomes very
> touchy. Wouldn't it be nice if you had to turn the knob several ticks
> to get it to click over to the next 5 KHz step? Then there would be
> some leeway for less than pianist-quality fingers. Am I crazy or
> should we ask Elecraft to do this the next time they open up the
> firmware for something more important? Or has this already been
> discussed and I'm the last to know?
>
> Rick N6XI


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