Working Split with a Sub RX

[Bill Levy]

I have always thought the K3 did it backwards.
Before the K3 I had a transceiver and a seperate RX above it.
The Receiver listened to the DX station and the Transceiver would tune to
find who was working him at the moment. Then the pounce!
So with the K3 I don't use the SPLIT button. I use the Sub on the DX
station and I lock it and then I use the transceiver knob to find the guys
working split. If you have a P3 attached you can see it and the P3 will put
you there instantaneously.

I think that's a better way to work split. Would love to hear from those
that agree or disagree.

Sincerely Bill N2WL
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[Kenneth Moorman]

Exactly what I have been doing for many years now and can’t see why I would do it any other way.  I switched my audio to my headphones to B-A instead of A-B to keep the DX station in my left ear and finding where the last station who worked him was located with my right ear.

Ken,  NU4I

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> On Mar 11, 2019, at 20:40, William Levy <[hidden email]> wrote:
>
> I have always thought the K3 did it backwards.
> Before the K3 I had a transceiver and a seperate RX above it.
> The Receiver listened to the DX station and the Transceiver would tune to
> find who was working him at the moment. Then the pounce!
> So with the K3 I don't use the SPLIT button. I use the Sub on the DX
> station and I lock it and then I use the transceiver knob to find the guys
> working split. If you have a P3 attached you can see it and the P3 will put
> you there instantaneously.
>
> I think that's a better way to work split. Would love to hear from those
> that agree or disagree.
>
> Sincerely Bill N2WL
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[Peter W2IRT]

I've tried it both ways personally, and I guess through 18 years of hardcore
DXing I got used to the DX on VFO-A and the pileup on VFO-B. But the
argument could certainly be made for the opposite way. I'd wager that's how
Dxpeditions operate, transmitting on VFO-B and scanning the pileup on VFO-A.

The Left-Mix-Right menu option is great, since it allows you to easily do
whichever mode seems right for your style of operating.

 - pjd

-----Original Message-----
From: [hidden email] <[hidden email]> On
Behalf Of William Levy
Sent: Monday, March 11, 2019 8:41 PM
To: Elecraft <[hidden email]>
Subject: [Elecraft] Working Split with a Sub RX

I have always thought the K3 did it backwards.
Before the K3 I had a transceiver and a seperate RX above it.
The Receiver listened to the DX station and the Transceiver would tune to
find who was working him at the moment. Then the pounce!
So with the K3 I don't use the SPLIT button. I use the Sub on the DX station
and I lock it and then I use the transceiver knob to find the guys working
split. If you have a P3 attached you can see it and the P3 will put you
there instantaneously.

I think that's a better way to work split. Would love to hear from those
that agree or disagree.

Sincerely Bill N2WL
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[Bill Frantz]

I suspect listening to the DX on the main receiver and the
pileup on the sub receiver came about with the radios which have
a better main than sub. (Not the K3(S)!) In this situation, you
want to use the good receiver for the weak DX station, and the
poorer for all the stronger pileup stations.

73 Bill AE6JV

On 3/12/19 at 10:07 PM, [hidden email] (Peter Dougherty) wrote:

>I've tried it both ways personally, and I guess through 18 years of hardcore
>DXing I got used to the DX on VFO-A and the pileup on VFO-B. But the
>argument could certainly be made for the opposite way. I'd wager that's how
>Dxpeditions operate, transmitting on VFO-B and scanning the pileup on VFO-A.
>
>The Left-Mix-Right menu option is great, since it allows you to easily do
>whichever mode seems right for your style of operating.
>
>- pjd
>
>-----Original Message-----
>From: [hidden email] <[hidden email]> On
>Behalf Of William Levy
>Sent: Monday, March 11, 2019 8:41 PM
>To: Elecraft <[hidden email]>
>Subject: [Elecraft] Working Split with a Sub RX
>
>I have always thought the K3 did it backwards.
>Before the K3 I had a transceiver and a seperate RX above it.
>The Receiver listened to the DX station and the Transceiver would tune to
>find who was working him at the moment. Then the pounce!
>So with the K3 I don't use the SPLIT button. I use the Sub on the DX station
>and I lock it and then I use the transceiver knob to find the guys working
>split. If you have a P3 attached you can see it and the P3 will put you
>there instantaneously.
>
>I think that's a better way to work split. Would love to hear from those
>that agree or disagree.
>
>Sincerely Bill N2WL

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