Sounds like you're asking about an AFC

[DOUGLAS ZWIEBEL]

OMG, please do NOT implement this "autotracking" feature.  It's bad
enough that one signal will drift across the band, now you want the K3
to "intelligently" drift also?

ARGH!

This is one idea that makes ZERO sense.

:-(

de Doug KR2Q

PS.  And please don't build in the option to add a chirp to the signal either.
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[Vic K2VCO]

DOUGLAS ZWIEBEL wrote:
> OMG, please do NOT implement this "autotracking" feature.  It's bad
> enough that one signal will drift across the band, now you want the K3
> to "intelligently" drift also?
>
> ARGH!
>
> This is one idea that makes ZERO sense.

Nobody having anything to do with Elecraft suggested this. Maybe it was
a joke?

Adding chirp, on the other hand, sounds interesting. A little buzz, too,
so you can sound like a Russian station of the 1950's.
--
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Vic, K2VCO
Fresno CA
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[John-483]

At 04:08 PM 25/09/07, you wrote:

>PS.  And please don't build in the option to add a chirp to the signal either.

Hey, you hit on a good idea there. Now days everybody sounds the
same, clean pure signals, and electronic keyers. In the "Good ole
days", so they say, you could tell who people were by the sound of
their signal and their fist, before they gave their call. Just think
of it, if you could add varying degrees of chirp, hum, raspy tone,
etc. with software on the K3, you could make amateur radio  just like
the "Good ole days".

John
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[Thom LaCosta]

On Tue, 25 Sep 2007, DOUGLAS ZWIEBEL wrote:

> OMG, please do NOT implement this "autotracking" feature.  It's bad
> enough that one signal will drift across the band, now you want the K3
> to "intelligently" drift also?
>
> ARGH!
>
> This is one idea that makes ZERO sense.

It was a question about the function....not a suggestion.

73 - k3hrn
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[Thom LaCosta]

On Tue, 25 Sep 2007, Vic K2VCO wrote:

>
> Nobody having anything to do with Elecraft suggested this. Maybe it was a
> joke?

It was a question, not a suggestion.

>
> Adding chirp, on the other hand, sounds interesting. A little buzz, too, so
> you can sound like a Russian station of the 1950's.

Is this a suggestion?

I'd love to see a swing option....and as far as other options, there's am
interesting collection of retro-options at http://zerobeat.net/qrp/qrpretro.html

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[Thom LaCosta]

On Tue, 25 Sep 2007, John wrote:

> At 04:08 PM 25/09/07, you wrote:
>
>> PS.  And please don't build in the option to add a chirp to the signal
>> either.
>
> Hey, you hit on a good idea there. Now days everybody sounds the same, clean
> pure signals, and electronic keyers. In the "Good ole days", so they say, you
> could tell who people were by the sound of their signal and their fist,
> before they gave their call. Just think of it, if you could add varying
> degrees of chirp, hum, raspy tone, etc. with software on the K3, you could
> make amateur radio  just like the "Good ole days".

Just think of it..,some folks might actually send cw without keyers or
computers....but that would be painful, it might require more hand-eye
coordination and some sense of spacing, etc.

As far as chirp, hum, etc.....wasn't there a series of posts about how the K3
"sounds", compared to the K2 and other rigs?  Geez, maybe Aptos best stamp out a
distictive K3 sound(g).

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[Ken Kopp]

Oh boy, this thread brings back memories of the "keying filter"
many of us built to give our rigs a "distinctive" sound.  My T-4XB
sounded pretty good, too! (:-))

73! Ken Kopp - K0PP
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[w6jd]

And let us not forget the "banana boat swing".

Doug, W6JD

-------------- Original message --------------
From: Vic K2VCO <[hidden email]>

> DOUGLAS ZWIEBEL wrote:
> > OMG, please do NOT implement this "autotracking" feature. It's bad
> > enough that one signal will drift across the band, now you want the K3
> > to "intelligently" drift also?
> >
> > ARGH!
> >
> > This is one idea that makes ZERO sense.
>
> Nobody having anything to do with Elecraft suggested this. Maybe it was
> a joke?
>
> Adding chirp, on the other hand, sounds interesting. A little buzz, too,
> so you can sound like a Russian station of the 1950's.
> --
> 73,
> Vic, K2VCO
> Fresno CA
> http://www.qsl.net/k2vco 
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[Thom LaCosta]

On Tue, 25 Sep 2007 [hidden email] wrote:

> And let us not forget the "banana boat swing".

I've asked for a "swing" option several times..if one can get banana boat, there
should also be a Lake Erie one.  I'll leave it to some other OT to mention more.

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[Geoffrey Mackenzie-Kennedy-2]

Thom LaCosta  <[hidden email]> wrote:

> I've asked for a "swing" option several times..if one can get banana boat,
> there should also be a Lake Erie one.  I'll leave it to some other OT to
> mention more.

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"Barking Dog" appears in my late Uncle's notes, who was operating from
Northern Rhodesia (Zambia) in the early 1920s. This might be a reference to
spark transmitters rather than a fist though. A spark option is a must in
any up-market rig :-)

I am unsubscribing from the List today, too much traffic about the K3 and
not enough time. Might return later.

cul es 73

Geoff
GM4ESD


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