Re: split pileup and listening was Pileups

[Lu Romero - W4LT]

Back in "the old days" with my Heath Twins, it was simple to
transmit split, but you could not hear your TX frequency
easily.  You had to grab the VFO assign button and flip it
back and forth between the 301 VFO and the 401 VFO on the
301 receiver control. Same issue on my TS430S, but much
harder. I broke the VFO select knob on that one. Then I
"moved up" to a TS850, and I literally wore the painted
label of off the TF-SET button. I developed the habit of
pressing it quickly for a "simulated dual receiver" effect
(the current owner of the rig loves to tell the story of his
blank knob!).  You can do the same thing with the REV button
on the K3.

Now its so easy!  Main RX on the DX, KRX3/VFO B on the TX
frequency, the DX mixed to both ears on Main and the TX
frequency RX is in the right ear only, adjust the balance
for taste.  

And I can tell you, the P3 is a quantum leap over that!  Got
#1301 on line this weekend, and found ST0R on 15 CW.  I
"see" him and then I "see" the pileup.  It was a simple
matter to "see" who had just worked him, land on that
frequency, and call.  (Always wanted an SB-620 back in the
"old days" to do this with) <grin>.

Ron, I may adopt your technique (below).  ESPECIALLY on a
run in a contest with a pileup, because that big knob is
easier to use than the little RIT knob.  Be like going back
to the way I did it with the Heath Twins.

Lu Romero - W4LT
K3 # 3192 / P3 # 1301

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Message: 9
Date: Sun, 31 Jul 2011 14:44:56 -0700
From: "Ron D'Eau Claire" <[hidden email]>
Subject: Re: [Elecraft] split pileup and listening was
Pileups    and
    KPA500/ST0R
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I normally operate my K2 and K3 exactly like I operated my
separate
transmitter and receiver pair in the past. I tune the RX to
the frequency on
which I plan to transmit. Zero beat with the TX, and
transmit.

With modern transceivers like the Elecraft rigs it's much,
much faster and
easier than with a separate TX/RX. I run in SPLIT all the
time. When I'm
receiving on the frequency on which I want to transmit I tap
A=B (on the K2)
or A>B (on the K3) to instantly zero beat the transmitter to
the rx
frequency.

Now I can continue to tune around using the comfortable VFO
A knob without
disturbing my transmit frequency.

A nice feature we didn't have on the separate tx/rx pair is
that we can
press REV to "peek" at our transmit frequency at any time
and then instantly
return to the selected receive frequency. So there's even
less excuse for
not checking the xmit frequency before actually transmitting
than we had
years ago, Hi!

73,

Ron AC7AC

-----Original Message-----

..Of course, in those days there were no transceivers, so
tuning Rx and Tx
independently was part of normal operation. Everybody knew
how to do it, or
they didn't operate...

Tony KT0NY



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