P3 forgets set ranges in Fixed Track mode (WARC)

[Bill Hammond]

As a CW operator, I keep the P3 in fixed track mode covering the lower 50 Khz of each band.  From time to time the P3 forgets the setting on the 17 and 12 meter bands only.  I'm wondering if i am the only person that has experienced this issue.  I can't pinpoint exactly how this happens but I am usually operating on 10 meters when I change bands and discover 12 and 17 have had the fixed track frequency I set disappear.  

I have never complained before as the reset has been infrequent.  Now, with 10 open, I find this problem occurs daily, sometimes two or three times a day.  Not an earth shattering problem as the  P3 works fine and I change the setting back, just an irritant.  I'm wondering if it is just my station or have others experienced this, remedy anyone?

73,

Bill Hammond
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[K1GQ-2]

My P3 routinely forgets the per-band SPAN when I set it using software commands instead of P3 buttons. Doesn’t matter which band, and the SPAN is remembered properly if I press the corresponding FN button for the computer-set SPAN before I change bands.

My P3 also forgets the per-band REF LVL setting, but not always and only on 160m.

  Bill, K1GQ

On Mar 15, 2014, at 13:16, Bill Hammond <[hidden email]> wrote:

> As a CW operator, I keep the P3 in fixed track mode covering the lower 50 Khz of each band.  From time to time the P3 forgets the setting on the 17 and 12 meter bands only.  I'm wondering if i am the only person that has experienced this issue.  I can't pinpoint exactly how this happens but I am usually operating on 10 meters when I change bands and discover 12 and 17 have had the fixed track frequency I set disappear.  
>
> I have never complained before as the reset has been infrequent.  Now, with 10 open, I find this problem occurs daily, sometimes two or three times a day.  Not an earth shattering problem as the  P3 works fine and I change the setting back, just an irritant.  I'm wondering if it is just my station or have others experienced this, remedy anyone?

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[k6dgw]

Mine sort of, kind of, does the same or similar thing although I've
never noticed a correlation with operation on 10.  I normally run
fixed-track with a 20 KHz span starting at the bottom of each band
[don't operate 17 or 24 much].  Sometimes, it seems more frequent if
I've been jumping around from one band to the next a lot, instead of
7.020 on the left, I'll see 7.025 or 14.025.  Almost always [maybe
always] 5 KHz.  I too cannot pinpoint exactly what causes it.  Happens
with 50 KHz spans too.

73,

Fred K6DGW
- Northern California Contest Club
- CU in the 2014 Cal QSO Party 4-5 Oct 2014
- www.cqp.org

On 3/15/2014 10:16 AM, Bill Hammond wrote:
> As a CW operator, I keep the P3 in fixed track mode covering the
> lower 50 Khz of each band.  From time to time the P3 forgets the
> setting on the 17 and 12 meter bands only.  I'm wondering if i am the
> only person that has experienced this issue.  I can't pinpoint
> exactly how this happens but I am usually operating on 10 meters when
> I change bands and discover 12 and 17 have had the fixed track
> frequency I set disappear.

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[dwines]

Bill,

I’ve had the same problem with my P3. I keep the spans on 50kHz on all bands and the problem seems to occur on the WARC bands with the odd limits (17m and 12m). It may have something to do with odd splits, i.e. 17 meters, 18.068 - 18.118 is 50kHz. In the last several weeks I have been chasing the W1AW/x stations on all modes and changing bands quite frequently. I can’t pin down exactly when it happens but it apparently happens when switching down from 10 or 15 meters. The WARC bands revert to the even 50kHz spans, i.e. on 17 meters the span changes to 18.050 to 18.100. The same thing happens on 12m.

It’s really been a PIA in the last few weeks and it happens multiple times daily.

Don Wines
K5DW

On Mar 15, 2014, at 12:16 PM, Bill Hammond <[hidden email]> wrote:

> As a CW operator, I keep the P3 in fixed track mode covering the lower 50 Khz of each band.  From time to time the P3 forgets the setting on the 17 and 12 meter bands only.  I'm wondering if i am the only person that has experienced this issue.  I can't pinpoint exactly how this happens but I am usually operating on 10 meters when I change bands and discover 12 and 17 have had the fixed track frequency I set disappear.  
>
> I have never complained before as the reset has been infrequent.  Now, with 10 open, I find this problem occurs daily, sometimes two or three times a day.  Not an earth shattering problem as the  P3 works fine and I change the setting back, just an irritant.  I'm wondering if it is just my station or have others experienced this, remedy anyone?
>
> 73,
>
> Bill Hammond
> [hidden email]
> Bill Hammond-AK5X
> [hidden email]
> [hidden email]
> K3 #69
> K3/0 # 200
> P3 #817
> KPA500 # 149
> KAT500 # 290
> K2/100 #4637
> K1 #2033
> KX1 #1023
> KX3 #583
> W2
> T1
>
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[Bill Frantz]

I have noticed that my carefully setup span to cover the entire
60M band wasn't quite right when I went back to that band. I
always run in fixed-tune mode as I mostly use the waterfall for
locating signals.

I change modes quite a bit as I am scanning the airwaves. I have
noticed that the VFO cursors don't always track the change of
bandwidth. Sometimes it seems that they aren't the same as the
K3's frequency as putting over waterfall signals produces
nothing in the headphones. I haven't tried to nail down exactly
what is happening, but changing between Data A and AFSK A seem
to cause the problem sometimes. Power cycling the P3 (but not
the K3) cures the problem, at the cost of the glacial SVGA
reinit time.

Cheers - Bill, AE6JV

On 3/15/14 at 10:16 AM, [hidden email] (Bill Hammond) wrote:

>As a CW operator, I keep the P3 in fixed track mode covering
>the lower 50 Khz of each band.  From time to time the P3
>forgets the setting on the 17 and 12 meter bands only.  I'm
>wondering if i am the only person that has experienced this
>issue.  I can't pinpoint exactly how this happens but I am
>usually operating on 10 meters when I change bands and discover
>12 and 17 have had the fixed track frequency I set disappear.
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