SB-105

[Brian Wood]

I'm sitting here designing the SB-105 and have a question you guys might be
able to answer.

You know how most modern rigs have RIT and XIT? Why does it need to be a
separate knob? When you push the RIT button and turn the knob, you don't
touch the main tuning. Once you've set the RIT/XIT, if you changed the main
tuning, the RIT and XIT offset would stay the same. Seems like you oughta be
able to use the big tuning knob and a RIT enable button and a XIT enable
button and a Clear with the main tuning knob. Especially with full dual
receive capability where RIT/XIT is sort of academic.

There's a good reason. RIT knobs are encoders, and they are expensive. You
already have a very accurate encoding dial in the main tuning that you don't
use when using RIT, so why not use it? Do you think people would find it
annoying that RIT/XIT works a little differently than IKenYa?

I know this is slightly off topic, but I really need the advice of a large
group of hams, and what better place than this? Please reply off-list.

Brian, W0DZ

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